Using text messages to support recovering substance misusers

Recovering dropped pronouns from Chinese text messages

Pronouns are frequently dropped in Chinese sentences, especially in informal data such as text messages. In this work we propose a solution to recover dropped pronouns in SMS data. We manually annotate dropped pronouns in 684 SMS files and apply machine learning algorithms to recover them, leveraging lexical, contextual and syntactic information as features. We believe this is the first work on...

Using text mining to support text summarization

Reading and writing texts are foundational abilities required for daily activities, human interaction and almost all school disciplines. However, it is not uncommon to find students with reading and writing difficulties. Those difficulties interfere on their learning process and their ability to comprehend more complex ideas. Therefore, failing to read and write leads not only to academic failu...

Mobile Phone Text Messages to Support Treatment Adherence in Adults With High Blood Pressure (SMS-Text Adherence Support [StAR])

Primary and secondary substance misusers: do they differ in substance-induced and substance-independent mental disorders?

AIMS This study evaluated the primary/secondary distinction among substance misusers according to comorbid mental disorders. METHODS A consecutive sample (n = 287) of DSM-IV substance dependents from public treatment facilities in two counties in Norway were assessed by the Composite International Diagnostic Interview. According to the debut of the first independent mental disorder, patients ...

Recovering Problem-Solving Activities from Query Messages

We investigated a set of query messages taken f rom an Usenet newsgroup, and analyzed relations between the nature of problem-solving act iv i t ies and their natura l language descriptions. Based on the corpus invest igat ion, this paper proposes an efficient computat ional mechanism for recovering problem-solving act ivi t ies f rom query messages wr i t ten in Japanese. The main c la im of t...