Query Answerability Classifier for Direct Answer Module in Web Search Engines

In order determine when we can show direct answer module to user queries in web search engine, an independent classifier is designed in this study to assess the answerability of each user query. Real user queries are sampled from MS MARCO Question Answering and Natural Langauge Generation dataset \cite{MSMARCO} and manually labelled with query...

Application of Probabilistic Damage Identification to Civil Engineering Structures: A Marriage of Structural Health Monitoring and Bayesian Statistics

The rapid development in statistics, information technology, and computational power have en- abled numerous innovative methods to emerge in Structural Health Monitoring (SHM) for structural damage detection, both in practical application and research. The intention of such methods is to use the data obtained from the monitoring system to...