Day: October 10, 2011

A Glasgow man received a warning yesterday after being caught blatantly taking a photograph of his own daughter innocently eating an ice cream at Braehead Shopping Centre.  After an alert from centre security, Strathclyde Police anti-terrorism unit was quick to arrive at the scene to investigate the incident. An ‘operation Whippy’ spokesman told me:   “By …

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Interest in question answering systems has been revived since the birth of the World Wide Web in 1989 (Cailliau, 2000) and the launch of Apple’s Siri in 2011. Using the web as a knowledgebase for such a system allows answers to be retrieved from a potentially limitless number of sources. However, the organisation and scale …

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