BACKGROUND High quality of informed consent form is essential for adequate information transfer between physicians and patients. Current status of medical procedure consent forms in clinical practice in Croatia specifically in terms of the readability and the content is unknown. The aim of this study was to assess the readability and the content of informed consent forms for diagnostic and ther...

Good readability of text is important to ensure efficiency in communication and eliminate risks of misunderstanding. Patent claims are an example of text whose readability is often poor. In this paper, we aim to improve claim readability by a clearer presentation of its content. Our approach consist in segmenting the original claim content at two levels. First, an entire claim is segmented to t...

Quantitative and qualitative methods used to pretest the guidebook Take Charge of Your Diabetes: A Guide for Care are presented in this paper. Questionnaires were used as the quantitative method (completed by 59 diabetes educators and 301 people with diabetes) and focus groups were used as the qualitative method (3 groups composed of 22 black men and women with diabetes) to examine the relevanc...

BACKGROUND The Internet is a widely used source of information for patients searching for medical/health care information. While many studies have assessed existing medical/health care information on the Internet, relatively few have examined methods for design and delivery of such websites, particularly those aimed at the general public. OBJECTIVE This study describes a method of evaluating ...

Information disclosure in annual reports is a mandatory requirement for publicly traded companies in China. The quality of information disclosure will reduce information asymmetry and therefore support market efficiency. Currently, the evaluation of the information disclosure quality in Chinese reports is conducted manually. It remains an untapped field for NLP and text mining community. The go...

OBJECTIVES Synthesizing qualitative research is an important means of ensuring the needs, preferences, and experiences of patients are taken into account by service providers and policy makers, but the range of methods available can appear confusing. This study presents the methods for synthesizing qualitative research most used in health research to-date and, specifically those with a potentia...

This research analyzed idiomatic expressions in My Sister’s Keeper movie based on Newmark’s theory. aimed to identify the types of translation methods translating expression and quality Nababan’s theory used found movie. descriptive qualitative method. The data were collected through documentation because taken from dialogues transcript result this showed that there 109 which contain applied ex...

This study aims to explain the techniques and assessment of quality translation imperative sentences in book Al-Fatḥu Ar-Rabbānī Wal-Faiḍu Ar-Raḥmānī by Sheikh Abdul Qadir Al-Jaelani. research is a part criticism using descriptive analysis method. uses qualitative approach analyzing Newmark's theory. In addition, quantitative also used assessing evaluation theory Nababan. The results this indic...

Guinaudeau and Strube (2013) introduce a graph based model to compute local entity coherence. We propose a computationally efficient normalization method for these graphs and then evaluate it on three tasks: sentence ordering, summary coherence rating and readability assessment. In all tasks normalization improves the results.

We propose a computationally efficient graph-based approach for local coherence modeling. We evaluate our system on three tasks: sentence ordering, summary coherence rating and readability assessment. The performance is comparable to entity grid based approaches though these rely on a computationally expensive training phase and face data sparsity problems.