Breakout session one: Notes from the Library and Information Group speakers.

Breakout Session Report

On Thursday November 19, 2008 a breakout session was held in Room B1 of the Ouaga 2000 Conference Center on the following theme: New developments in cotton ginning. The session began at 2:00 pm and ended at 3:40 pm. The meeting was well attended and the discussions were frank and direct. Four speakers were on the agenda but there were in fact three presentations, as the fourth speaker was unabl...

Information Integration Research: Summary of NSF IDM Workshop Breakout Session

WaSABi 2014: Breakout Brainstorming Session Summary

A key program point of the 2nd International Workshop on Semantic Web Enterprise Adoption and Best Practice (WaSABi 2014) was the breakout brainstorming session, at which challenges regarding enterprise adoption of Semantic Web technologies were discussed, and potential solutions to some of those challenges described. The requested output of this session was for each group of 5 people to produc...

Information Extraction from Medical Notes: The Power of One

Health providers tend to prefer free text when describing drug dosages prescribed to their patients. However, unstructured text is not amenable to large scale analysis such as data mining. In this paper, we explore four methods that automatically identify drug, dosage, and method of delivery information from transcribed physician notes. Our final method uses just one extraction heuristic, and a...

Library and dissemination of health information

Purpose: The aim of this research is to determine the role of public and academic libraries in disseminating of health information and comparing of the two types of libraries with each other. Method: The research method is applied with descriptive-survey. The sample size was determined by using the Morgan table, 379 people. The questionnaires were distributed using Quotas sampling method. ...