This paper presents ongoing research in clinical information extraction. This work introduces a new genre of text which are not well-written, noise prone, ungrammatical and with much cryptic content. A corpus of clinical progress notes drawn form an Intensive Care Service has been manually annotated with more than 15000 clinical named entities in 11 entity types. This paper reports on the chall...

The use of outline shape in recognizing objects was investigated in four experiments. In Experiment 1, subjects matched a shaded image to either another shaded image or a silhouette. In Experiment 2, subjects initially named shaded images; later they named either shaded images or silhouettes. Performance in both experiments was predicted by changes in the outline shape of the stimuli. The same ...

Fundamental physics and numerous field studies have clearly shown a higher injury and fatality risk for occupants in smaller and lighter vehicles when colliding with a heavier, taller and a higher one. The consensus is that the significant parameters influencing compatibility in front-toside crashes are geometric interaction, vehicle stiffness, and vehicle mass. The objective of this research i...