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On the other hand, our upper bound results show that only 65-79% of questions will be answered correctly even in the best possible circumstances.
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The next section situates the specific track task in the context of other question answering work.
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First, the sources relevant for answering the query must be identified.
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He knows the melody and the words and answers with the next verse.
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Section 5 of this chapter contains a list of questions to be answered in subsequent chapters.
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In other words, how do they accomplish or do "answering"?
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Thus, considered holistically, this entire turn can be seen as occupied with the task of answering the question.
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Two flow-charts of strategies used to achieve the cor rect answers were then designed.
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Most of these are couched in the form of questions rather than answers.
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The first partial answers only concern and date back as recently as 1995, and all the other partial results obtained so far are essentially negative.
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In this section, the statistical results will be described in search of answers to the research questions set out for this study.
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To seek answers to these questions, she conducted an extended and detailed study of communication in a major public hospital.
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The volume thus raises many more questions than it answers.
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Students answered specific questions about their strategy use in a follow-up interview after each reading session.
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The answers to these questions helped to devise motivating activities that engaged learners in acquiring the target skills.
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A second example of this type is shown in (17), which offers evidence that non-selected recipients provide not only preferred answers but also dispreferred answers.
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Second, the turn shapes of answers and nonanswer responses reflect their ranking as preferred and dispreferred categories of response.
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However, it is their son who actually answers the question.
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Non-selected recipients appear generally to restrict their responses to answers.
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Question answering systems are often faced with questions about the participants and circumstances of acts.
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There are two types of answers, namely short (50-bytes) and long (250bytes).
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Utterance 2 is seen as answering two questions; however, no task or plan has yet been established and no questions have been raised.
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The expected abductive cost for questions answered correctly is 1.78 compared to 2.48 for questions answered incorrectly.
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All these questions needed to be answered, at least partially, prior to dialogue modelling.
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Price, with answers, is. 6d.; without answers, is.
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The questions, along with the answers from the composers are below.
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In the absence of this kind of analysis, the questions raised at the outset of the book are never really answered.
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One final question needs to be answered as to the probable outcome of this ongoing reanalysis.
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The purpose of this section is to review some theoretical answers that have been proposed to this question.
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The answers to these two questions are related.
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If both were answered in the negative, the driver would apply her 'overtaking routine', which determines all the necessary mental and motor activity.
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The answers to both questions are of distinctive importance for the reliability of the hybrid method.
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However, when answering the question as to what constitutes a villa, we are perhaps being misled by our preference for morphological criteria.
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Anyway, we learned to mistrust easy answers to problems without precedent.
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After the students completed the practice problems, the examiner asked the students to call out the correct answers.
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Such immersion occurs through a continued process of asking questions and finding answers.
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Many questions about craft activities are best answered at the household level.
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The overall result is a round-table conversation, formal in tone and interspersed with questions, answers and comments.
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Finally, the answering categories and question wordings, especially ' help out with money ', are very broad.
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The third variable, was the difference in the number of correct answers given by each student pre- and post-intervention.
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The second variable was the number of correct answers to the post-intervention questionnaire.
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The order of the items on a show card might also influence the answers, including the frequency of references to different domains.
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Moreover, there was a high response rate (73 per cent) and over four-fifths of the respondents reported that they were confident with their answers.
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The answers were dichotomised into needs aids or support from another person (no/yes).
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The answers to all four items will however provide valuable information.
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The answers which we come up with reflect the questions we ask.
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The articles in this volume raise these important questions, but much work must be done before they can be satisfactorily answered.
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The contribution of this paper is the demonstration of a method for synthesizing causal information into coherent answers.
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In contrast, the objective of our proposed approach is to extend and synthesize text spans to allow the generation of coherent answers.
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To achieve this, semantic analysis is necessary of both the questions and the texts from which the answers are to be extracted.
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Papers presented aimed to ask questions rather than provide answers; this was after all a first meeting.
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As is often the case in academic enquiry, more questions may be raised than answered.
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They had been away from the ship without food for 20 hours, but had answered the local questions.
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After generating an event, participants answered a series of questions concerning their feelings about the event, to ensure a suitable depth of processing.
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The message to industry, to reduce unnecessary packaging, was answered by three initiatives: two general codes of practice and one ill-funded and narrow business plan.
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Importantly, those who answered had considerably higher rates of participation than did those who did not.
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To provide some answers to this question, let us explore some of the practices of regional civil society peacebuilding.
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We answered these questions empirically by analyzing the density of true category members at various points in the ranked lists.
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Thus, it must address those questions that need to be answered for a successful implementation of modern technology in music culture.
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Our answers might differ, and will no doubt continue to do so.
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There is a large number of ways in which one might set about answering this last question.
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Therefore, they answered that the two rows were not the same (number) !
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The growing field of evolutionary linguistics is likely to provide some answers.
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After giving informed consent, patients provided 7 ml of venous blood and answered a questionnaire.
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We might apply this response to the question of correct answers.
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The denial of indeterminacy is a claim that within the law (in some sense) a judge can find correct answers even to difficult cases.
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More appealing is the idea of approach (2) that all the legal materials in combination, as understood by the ideal judge, would yield correct answers.
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People will even adopt answering resources that they know to be completely unreliable.
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In addition to the reliability problem, answers to unknowable questions tend to be unpersuasive.
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Now we seek real answers to those questions.
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The answers to these questions can be found in the passage you are about to read.
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Viewing mathematical activity within local cultures is one way to address several kinds of natural questions that cannot be answered satisfactor ily otherwise.
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All tests, conducted in an oral format, were carried out in the language laboratory, where participants recorded their answers on individual audiocassettes.
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We felt this optimized their opportunities to reflect and reconsider their answers if necessary and ensure the highest degree of accuracy possible.
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The respondents' answers provided rich accounts of the reasoning behind their replies.
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The weighted ' yes ' answers were summed for each dimension.
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Cowen does not have any easy answers but casts a helpful critical eye on some of the accepted wisdom of the day.
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The natural and social sciences have produced two general answers for how to study complex phenomena.
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To evaluate a given candidate regularity, three questions should be answered.
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When the question about the goal is answered, the question about conditions for such successful achievements becomes even more urgent.
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There is no basis for answering such a question.
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To pursue the empiricist program further, however, we need answers to two questions.
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Even if the experimenters think they know the right answers to moral questions, it is inappropriate for us to pay subject to give them.
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Study 3 showed that low scorers do poorly when evaluating the test answers of others.
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Appropriate methods should be chosen carefully, depending on the type of data and the questions to be answered.
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In other words, no one thing can teach all the answers here, the problems we face need facing communally, and in a multitude of ways.
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He treated its causes and suggested answers to the problem.
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Interviews and answers to the questionnaire also provided information on attitudes towards women and gender relations among rank and file labour activists.
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Similar questions also arise with reference to the use of models in scientific inquiry, and realists differ from instrumentalists as to the answers.
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They seek answers to questions and solutions to problems which confront them and which are important to them.
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Other federal agencies have used the case study method successfully in answering program effects questions.
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Two outstanding elders in whom we had the most trust had no answers.
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One was constantly answering their enquiries at the gates or completing their forms at the office.
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The bishop answers the boy's spontaneity with a spontaneous act of his own, but one which is far more definitive than the boy's in scope.
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If the student answered a question incorrectly, the rule was reiterated with further explanation or examples.
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In connection with this, girls are seen to be more open-minded, in a series of answers that merge mostly on classical and on world musics.
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In an inductive condition, tutors provided specific feedback about students' answers to all six questions; students had to induce processes.
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At the end of the round, the correct answers to the passed questions are provided.
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