Hypothesis generation in the life sciences is an empirical process in which obtaining and structuring knowledge from literature plays a significant role. Text mining and Information Extraction techniques are seen as key for programmatically accessing the knowledge captured in the form of free text. We describe progress towards an application that supports the task of generating a hypothesis abo...

The parser is par t of a t e x t understanding system in which s t r u c t u r a l ambiguity is a major problem. A l l components of the system use a message-passing con t ro l s t r u c t u r e . A general advantage of t h i s form of con t ro l is tha t i t a l lows the f l e x i b l e i n t e g r a t i o n of d iverse knowledge sources. The parser t ransmi ts sub-sen ten t ia l cons t i tuen...

Dialogue is crucial to evaluation. Through dialogue, people are invited to develop new, shared ways of seeing and acting. From a hermeneutic perspective, dialogue implies consensus, based upon shared meanings and oriented towards reaching agreement. Dialogue also implies disagreement, in the form of a conflict between different, rival stories. The role of the evaluator is to enter into dialogue...

This paper compares domain-oriented and linguistically-oriented semantics, based on the GENIA event corpus and FrameNet. While the domain-oriented semantic structures are direct targets of Text Mining (TM), their extraction from text is not straghtforward due to the diversity of linguistic expressions. The extraction of linguistically-oriented semactics is more straghtforward, and has been stud...

To facilitate an enhanced understanding of the experience of being a patient, an inquiry was undertaken into the experience of nurses receiving nursing care when hospitalized. Using a hermeneutic-phenomenological approach, an exploration was undertaken of registered nurses' interpretations of their experiences of receiving nursing care, as described in their individual stories. By interpreting ...

The aim of this study was to explore the approach adopted by health care practitioners when handling transcultural encounters. The study was performed by means of action research, a reflective process led by practitioners and researchers working together to improve practice and solve problems. Data were collected through participant observations at a coronary unit in Sweden and group discussion...

A brief survey of user-oriented MT evaluation methodologies suggests that they all suffer drawbacks in terms of time and/or generality and/or user interpretability. The time and cost of evaluation, coupled with system prices, make it increasingly less likely that full-scale pre-purchase evaluation by a single potential user will be economic. It is clearly desirable that MT systems should be “ge...

A common authoring technique involves making annotations on a printed draft and then typing the corrections into a computer at a later date. In this paper, we describe a system that goes some way towards automating this process. The author simply passes the annotated documents through a sheetfeed scanner and then brings up the electronic document in a text editor. The system then works out wher...

Biostomp is a new musical interface that relies on the use mechanomyography (MMG) as a biocontrol mechanism in live performance situations. Designed in the form of a stomp box, Biostomp translates a performer’s muscle movements into control signals. A custom MMG sensor captures the acoustic output of muscle tissue oscillations resulting from contractions. An analog circuit amplifies and filters...

A data-oriented parsing or DOP model for statistical parsing associates fragments of linguistic representations with numerical weights, where these weights are estimated by normalizing the empirical frequency of each fragment in a training corpus (see Bod [1998] and references cited therein). This note observes that this estimation method is biased and inconsistent; that is, the estimated distr...