1 Introduction " Before there were computers, we could distinguish persons from non-persons on the basis of an ability to participate in conversations. But now, we have hybrids operating between person and non persons with whom we can talk in ordinary language. " (Colby 1999). Human machine conversation as a technology integrates different areas where the core is language, and the computational...

Genomics and Epigenetics Division, Garvan Institute of Medical Research, NSW 2010, Australia St Vincent’s Clinical School, University of New South Wales, NSW 2052, Australia Bioinformatics Division, The Walter & Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research, VIC 3052, Australia Department of Medical Biology, University of Melbourne, VIC 3010, Australia Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Unive...

S. Eliza Halcomb, Evan Schwarz, and Michael E. Mullins OVERDOSES Overdose, General GENERAL PRINC IPLES ü According to the American Association of Poison Control Centers (AAPCC), there were over 2 million exposures and 1,146 fatalities related to toxins in 2010 (Clin Toxicol 49(10):910). Overdoses are common in the emergency department, and although they are rarely fatal, it is important to foll...

We have developed a new type of open-ended dialog system that generates proper responses to users' utterances using the abundant documents available on the World Wide Web as sources. Existing knowledge-based dialog systems provide meaningful information to users, but they are unsuitable for open-ended input. The system Eliza, while it can handle open-ended input, gives no meaningful information...

Both dialogue systems and chatbots aim at putting into action communication between humans and computers. However, instead of focusing on sophisticated techniques to perform natural language understanding, as the former usually do, chatbots seek to mimic conversation. Since Eliza, the first chatbot ever, developed in 1966, there were many interesting ideas explored by the chatbots’ community. A...

In the present study, modified indigenous ELISA kit (kit 1) was compared with indigenous ELISA kit (kit 2) and commercial ELISA kit (kit 3) for its sensitivity and specificity with respect to faecal culture for diagnosis of Johne's disease in goats and sheep under natural conditions. Of the 64 positive animals, serum of 42.1, 48.4 and 18.7% animals yielded positive infection in kit 1, 2 and 3, ...