Introduction

Web4Health Services
Web4Health Statistics
Visitors Distribution by Language September 2004
Language Regions April to September 2004
How People Get to Web4Health
FAQs Produced
FAQs written versus ask-the-expert questions asked

Search Engine Optimization
Dubious/Unethical Methods of SEO
Example of phrase optimization
Ethics of Search Engine Optimization
How people find answers in our site

Cross-Lingual Question-Answering Architecture
Cross-Lingual Question-Answering Status
Cross-Lingual Question-Answering Demos

Overview

European Dimension and Cross-Cultural Issues
Medical Quality, Risks
FAQ Production Tool
Natural-Language Question-Answering
Comparison for the question: "What causes eating disorders?"
Stepwise Refinement
Forums, Chats, Ask-the-Expert
Dissemination
Exploitation
User and usage evaluations
Questionnaire Answers
User Observations and Interviews Result

Midterm review suggestions

Cross-Lingual Question-Answering Architecture

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Cross-Lingual Question-Answering Status

June 2004 First prototype ready
September 2004 Running for Italian and German, but not fully developed yet
??? Fully developed, including fully customized dictionaries

 

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Cross-Lingual Question-Answering Demos

Italian: XTC provoca dipendenza?

English: Is XTC habit forming?

Result with cross-lingual question-answering:

Italian: É possibile che il mio bambino soffra di disordine bipolare?

English: Is it possible that my child has bipolar disorder?

Result with cross-lingual question-answering:

Italian: Come posso fermare mio marito che quando ha bevuto picchia il nostro bambino?

English: What should I do to stop my husband beating our child?

Result with cross-lingual question-answering:

English: Why am I always hungry?
Italian: Perché sono sempre affamato?

Result with cross-lingual question-answering:

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