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Geographical Disparities in Lung Cancer in Canada: A Review
The eastern provinces of Canada exhibit a heightened prevalence and mortality rate of lung cancer compared to their western counterparts. While established risk factors for lung cancer exist in Canada, there r...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Input Value Skewness and Class Label Confusion in the NEFCLASS Neuro-Fuzzy System
Nefclass is a common example of the construction of a neuro-fuzzy system. The popular Nefclass classifier exhibits surprising behaviour when the feature values of the training and testing data sets exhibit signif...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Automatic Acquisition of Semantic-Based Question Reformulations for Question Answering
In this paper, we present a method for the automatic acquisition of semantic-based reformulations from natural language questions. Our goal is to find useful and generic reformulation patterns, which can be us...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Using Semantic Constraints to Improve Question Answering
In this paper, we discuss our experience in using semantic constraints to improve the precision of a reformulation-based question-answering system. First, we present a method for acquiring semantic-based refor...