we say what we mean and we mean what we say

What Do We Mean When We Say "Collaboration"?

What do we mean when we say an operation works?

At a conference the other day, while hotly debating the role of hip arthroscopic surgery in the management of osteoarthritis, a friend and colleague announced to the assembled throng, 'We know that hip arthroscopy doesn't work'. You would not have expected the Editor-in-Chief of this journal to remain silent at that moment and I certainly was not. However, what the statement did highlight, of c...

NLP and Online Health Reports: What do we say and what do we mean?

Social media sites such as microblogs and discussion board forums have the potential to be rich source of information about human health. Going beyond simple keyword search and harnessing the data for insights that can benefit public health presents both opportunities and challenges to natural language processing (NLP). In this talk I survey the progress made using NLP methods, e.g. for adverse...

Why do we say what we say the way we say it?

This paper seeks answer to the question why exactly we say what we say the way we say it. Although Giora (1997, 2003) argued that cognitively prominent salient meanings, rather than literal meanings, play the most important role both in production and comprehension of language, most attention in pragmatics research has been focused on comprehension rather than production. This paper claims that...

Molecular approaches to diagnosis of invasive aspergillosis what we know and what we do not know.

Invasive aspergillosis (IA) are a major complication in immunocompromized patients where can be serious and rapidly fatal. Early diagnosis and early appropriate antifungal treatment is important in reducing mortality and morbidity. But despite many efforts to develop detection methods, the diagnosis of IA still remains challenging and current conventional methods are limited for adequate diagno...

What we can say: disease illiteracy.

AIMS To study the awareness, attitude and behavior of patients with chronic disease in those who come for follow-up, about nature of their disease, compliance to drugs and precautions. PATIENTS AND METHODS Patients attending medical outdoor with a prescription documents (discharge cards, pensioner diary, prescription letter etc.) bearing diagnosis of the chronic disease in question based on s...