factoid

noun

1. 仿真陈述（很可能不真实但使人信以为真）
   something that is widely accepted as a fact, although it is probably not true
2. 有趣消息（尤指有关不太重要事情的）
   a small piece of interesting information, especially about sth that is not very important
   1. Here's a pop factoid for you.
      告诉你一个广为流传的趣闻。

1. Fun Factoid: video game consoles consumed nearly 70% of their energy in 2010 while idle.
   一句话趣味新闻：2010年全年，视频游戏机在闲置时的耗电量占其总耗电量的近70%。
2. My sons seem to think magnetic technology is the state of the art. I'm not sure where they got this factoid, but it sounded good to me.
   我的孩子们似乎认为磁悬浮是目前最先进的技术，我不知道他们从哪儿听说的，这其实并不确切，不过在我听来还不错。
3. Here's another subtle yet important factoid.
   以下是另一段巧妙却又很重要的事实。
4. I have, however, recently learned that those who turn to a search engine at the slightest mention of a forgotten factoid might not be all that better off.
   但我最近了解到，那些只要听到有人忘记了某件半真半假的事便求助于搜索引擎的人，或许未必好到哪里去。
5. Futuristic Factoid: This creature slurps algae and breathes through long, brightly colored gills.
   特征：它吃海藻，用长长的，有淡淡颜色的腮呼吸。
6. A factoid is a tatement that sounds like a fact, walks and talks like a fact, but is, in fact, not a fact.
   仿真陈述是听起来像事实，走路谈话都像事实，但实际上不是事实的陈述。
7. A Survey on Answer Selection Technology for Factoid Question
   面向事实性问题的答案选择技术研究综述
8. Specifically, it focuses on answering factoid and definition open-domain questions.
   准确地说，本文集中在开放域的事实型和定义型问答系统的研究。
9. QA research attempts to deal with a wide range of question types including: factoid, list, definition, how, why, hypothetical, semantically-constrained, and cross-lingual questions.
   问答系统的研究试图使系统能回答较宽范围的问题，包括：事实、列举、定义、方式、原因、假设、语义约束和跨语言类型的问题。
10. Finally, combining question type and similarity between question and sentence, the experiment on extracting sentence as answer for Chinese factoid question is done.
    最后结合问题类型和相似度计算结果，对汉语基于事实的简单陈述问题进行了答案句子提取实验。
11. Experiment result shows great efficiency. Secondly, this paper applies semantic role analysis techniques combines with question key-words on answer extraction towards factoid questions.
    实验结果表明该分类模型具有良好的效果。2.针对事实性问题，本文利用语义角色分析和问句关键词相结合的方法进行答案抽取，用基于问句关键词的方法弥补语义角色分析的缺陷。

noun

1. a brief (usually one sentence and usually trivial) news item

2. something resembling a fact