Icelandic is a morphologically complex language, for which language technology resources are scarce. Only a few years ago, it could be stated that language technology was practically non-existent in Iceland. In this paper, we describe the development of an NLP toolkit for processing the language, the challenges faced and the decisions made during development. The current version of the toolkit ...

Of the total population admitted over a 12-month period to a tertiary referral epilepsy centre for assessment of their seizure disorder, a high percentage were diagnosed with non-epileptic attack disorder. A retrospective analysis of these patients revealed that although intensive therapy and support was offered during the period of admission, the long-term resources for further management post...

Cervical cancer is the second most common cause of female cancer mortality worldwide. Concurrent chemoradiotherapy represents the standard of care for patients with stages IB2 to IVa cervical cancer. Unfortunately radiation therapy capacity is severely limited to non-existent in many Low and Middle-Income Countries. One solution has been to use chemotherapy to reduce tumor size to allow for rad...

This Paper presents a new hybrid technique for digit recognition applied to the speed limit sign recognition task. The complete recognition system consists in the detection and recognition of the speed signs in RGB images. A pretreatment is applied to extract the pictogram from a detected circular road sign, and then the task discussed in this work is employed to recognize digit candidates. To ...

Cardiovascular disease, including stroke, heart failure and kidney disease, has been common in sub-Saharan Africa for many years, and rapid urbanization is causing an upsurge of ischaemic heart disease and metabolic disorders. At least two-thirds of cardiovascular deaths now occur in low- and middle-income countries, bringing a double burden of disease to poor and developing world economies. Hi...

For machine and individuals to successfully exchange annotations about audio resources, a technique is needed to provide these with stable identifiers. In this paper we propose ontological definitions of some identification problems and discuss the preliminary conceptual structure of the Music URI Infrastructure (MUI) project. The idea behind MUI is that of designing a distributed infrastructur...

This paper discuses preliminary results on acoustic models creation through acoustic models already in existence for another language. In this work we show as case of study, the creation of acoustic models for Mexican Spanish, tagging automatically the training corpus with a recognition system for French. The resulting set of acoustic models for Mexican Spanish has gathered promising results at...

This paper describes work the Open Language Archives Community (OLAC) is doing to contribute to a global infrastructure for the sustainability of language resources. After offering a definition of language resource, it addresses the issue of what makes language resources sustainable by defining six necessary and sufficient conditions for their sustained use, then discusses what it takes to make...

A cornerstone of effective disaster management is that response should always begin and end at the local level (1). The response to the Ebola virus disease (EVD) outbreak in Liberia, West Africa, was a combination of independent efforts by many nations and organizations. Many of these independent efforts ignored or were not able to work with the local levels of emergency management in Liberia. ...

This paper describes the work achieved in CESART (Campagne d’Evaluation des Systèmes d’Acquisition des Ressources Terminologiques) evaluation project supported by the French Ministry of Research and Technology1 and coordinated by the University of Lille 3 and ELDA. The project deals with the evaluation of term and semantic relation extraction from corpora in French. CESART logically follows on ...