PURPOSE To assess the impact of post-stroke depression on the participation component of the International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health (ICF). METHOD Thirty-five stroke survivors with chronic hemiparesis were divided into two groups: those with and without depression. The Geriatric Depression Scale (GDS) was used for the analysis of depressive symptoms. Participation w...

This paper presents an empirical evaluation of the quality of publicly available large-scale knowledge resources. The study includes a wide range of manually and automatically derived large-scale knowledge resources. In order to establish a fair and neutral comparison, the quality of each knowledge resource is indirectly evaluated using the same method on a Word Sense Disambiguation task. The e...

Pain is one of the most debilitating symptoms in epidermolysis bullosa (EB) leading to reduced quality of life. Pain in EB comprises both neuropathic and non-neuropathic qualities. An assessment of pain qualities has not formerly been completed in EB. The Pain Quality Assessment Scale (PQAS) is an adjusted version of the validated Neuropathic Pain Scale and includes 20 pain qualities and descri...

This paper presents the results of the WMT12 shared tasks, which included a translation task, a task for machine translation evaluation metrics, and a task for run-time estimation of machine translation quality. We conducted a large-scale manual evaluation of 103 machine translation systems submitted by 34 teams. We used the ranking of these systems to measure how strongly automatic metrics cor...

There is an evident need for standardised, internationally recognised instruments to measure health-related outcomes that are also locally applicable. The European Quality of Life 5-Dimensions (EQ-5D) is a widely used measure of health-related quality of life (HRQoL) that was translated into Xhosa. This communication outlines some of the different cultural and linguistic issues that had to be a...

objective: the sheehan disability scale (sds) assesses disability in four domains of home management, work responsibilities, close relationships and social life. the main objective of this study was to develop the persian version of the sds. method: two steps of field work followed the persian translation and cultural adaptation of the tool: first, the internal consistency and convergent validi...

This paper analyzes the translation quality of machine translation systems for 10 language pairs translating between Czech, English, French, German, Hungarian, and Spanish. We report the translation quality of over 30 diverse translation systems based on a large-scale manual evaluation involving hundreds of hours of effort. We use the human judgments of the systems to analyze automatic evaluati...

BACKGROUND AND AIM OF THE WORK The Activities Scale for Kids performance (ASKp) is one of the few self-assessment questionnaires in pediatric rehabilitation that measures child perception in performance of daily routine activities. ASKp is composed of 30 questions designed to explore activities and participation in children and teenagers with musculoskeletal disorders. Scores assess level of ph...