Abstract “Based on theoretical reasoning it has been suggested that the reliability of findings
published in the scientific literature decreases with the popularity of a research field”(Pfeiffer …

Natural language comments convey key aspects of source code such as implementation,
usage, and pre-and post-conditions. Failure to update comments accordingly when the …

Classifying the general intent of the user utterance in a conversation, also known as
Dialogue Act (DA), eg, open-ended question, statement of opinion, or request for an opinion …

While impressive performance has been achieved on the task of Answer Sentence Selection
(AS2) for English, the same does not hold for languages that lack large labeled datasets. In …

Answer selection is an essential step in a question answering (QA) system. Traditional
methods for this task mainly focus on developing linguistic features that are limited in …

Answer selection with deep neural networks has been studied extensively owing to its
strong capability of encoding semantic features. Most previous work has treated the …

According to common relevance-judgments regimes, such as TREC's, a document can be
deemed relevant to a query even if it contains a very short passage of text with pertinent …

The medical literature suffers from disagreements among authors discussing the same topic
or treatment. With thousands of articles published daily, there is a need to detect inconsistent …

State-of-the-art networks that model relations between two pieces of text often use complex
architectures and attention. In this paper, instead of focusing on architecture engineering, we …

Plenty of research attempts target the automatic duplicate detection in Community Question
Answering (CQA) systems and frame the task as a supervised learning problem on the …