This paper proposes to tackle open- domain question answering using Wikipedia as the unique knowledge source: the answer to any factoid question is a text span in a Wikipedia article. This task of machine reading at scale combines the challenges of document retrieval (finding the relevant...
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Frustrated with vehicles blocking bus and bike lanes, Alex Bell applied some statistical methods to estimate the extent. Sarah Maslin Nir for The New York Times: Now Mr. Bell is trying another tack — the 30-year-old computer scientist who lives in Harlem has created a prototype of a...
Martin Luther King’s death commemorated with 39 bell tolls in Memphis
A bell at the Lorraine Motel where King was killed tolled 39 times, once for each year he lived. Churches and universities around the world joined in ringing their own bells in King’s memoryAt the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, the silence was piercing at 6.01pm, 50 years to the minute since Martin...
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