Publications by authors named "Mohsen Kahani"

Background: In recent years, researchers have used many computerized interventions to reduce medical errors, the third cause of death in developed countries. One of such interventions is using differential diagnosis generators in primary care, where physicians may encounter initial symptoms without any diagnostic presuppositions. These systems generate multiple diagnoses, ranked by their likelihood.

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Today, several attempts to manage question answering (QA) have been made in three separate areas: (1) knowledge-based (KB), (2) text-based and (3) hybrid, which takes advantage of both prior areas in extracting the response. On the other hand, in question answering on a large number of sources, source prediction to ensure scalability is very important. In this paper, a method for source prediction is presented in hybrid QA, involving several KB sources and a text source.

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Peer review is the most important aspect of reputable journals. Without it, we would be unsure about whether the material published was as valid and reliable as is possible. However, with the advent of the Internet, scientific literature has now become subject to a relatively new phenomenon: fake peer reviews.

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