Support Vector Machines (SVM) have been used successfully in many Natural Language Processing (NLP) tasks. The novel contribution of this paper is in investigating two techniques for making SVM more suitable for language learning tasks. Firstly, we propose an SVM with uneven margins (SVMUM) model to deal with the problem of imbalanced training data. Secondly, SVM active learning is employed in ...

C ardiovascular implantable electronic device (CIED) infections typically manifest in 2 distinct presentations—local generator pocket infection or systemic infection associated with bloodstream infection (BSI) with or without cardiovascular implantable electronic device–related infective endocarditis (CIED-IE) (1). While diagnosis of CIED pocket infection can generally be established based on p...

a total of 14 cases of infective endocarditis (ie) in children aged 6 months to 10 years were seen from december 1987 to december 1992 at the pediatric unit of ayatollah taleghani medical center. the majority of patients (12 of 14) were between 5 and 10 years of age. acyanotic congenital heart disease was known to preexist in 78.6% and rheumatic valvular heart disease in 21.4% of cases. organis...

Streptococci in patients who received previous antibiotic treatment and infection of the right heart and specifically on pace makers. The diagnostic strategy of BCNIE starts by serological testing of fastidious agents. At the minimum Coxiella burnetii and Bartonella should be tested. A single serum is sufficient, as endocarditis is a chronic disease associated with high level IgG antibodies. Q ...

This manuscript gives two possible rewritings from the mcsie system input language to hex programs, and compares them with respect to efficiency of evaluation in dlvhex.

We present an information extraction system for patient records which has been submitted to the ShARe/CLEF eHealth Evaluation Lab 2014 Task 2. The task was information extraction from clinical text in terms of a disease/disorder template filling process. The system uses a lexicalized parser to annotate grammatical relations between diseases, disorders, and other constituents on a sentence level...

This paper reports on the development of thee Japanese Information Extraction system and the Japanese Information Extraction customization tool. These systems are based on the corresponding English systems, the Proteus Information Extraction system (Grishman 97) and the Proteus Extraction Tool (Yangarber and Grishman 97), developed at NYU. In this paper, we will, in particular, describe the dif...