XML is by now the de facto standard for exporting and exchanging data on the web. The need for querying XML data sources whose structure is not fully known to the user and the need to integrate multiple data sources with different tree structures have motivated recently the suggestion of keyword-based techniques for querying XML documents. The semantics adopted by these approaches aims at restr...

Rapid technological advances in genetics have created conceptual chaos regarding the genetics of drug response. Terms for differing concepts are used interchangeably: pharmacogenetics with pharmacogenomics, personalized medicine with personalized prescription. Biomarker has many definitions. The author prefers the concept of personalized prescription and uses it with implications beyond pharmac...

Vertical Search Engine (VSE) indexes only those pages which are relevant to the predefined subject. It is necessary to determine which kind of information in a web page is relevant. This paper addresses the issue of relevancy of a web page which has the content of freelance and remote work postings. For this, we propose a machine learning approach which checks the content of the web page. It ex...

10.1517/14622416.6.4.439 © 2 For years we have recognized that using genetics to target the right medicines to the right patients at the right time could improve healthcare; however, technical and financial constraints have prevented researchers from conducting the comprehensive, whole-genome association studies required to make such advances. Now, Perlegen and its collaborators are making pers...

The growing interest in personalized medicine requires making inferences from descriptive indexes estimated from individual recordings of physiological signals, with statistical analyses focused on individual differences between/within subjects, rather than comparing supposedly homogeneous cohorts. To this end, methods to compute confidence limits of individual estimates of descriptive indexes ...

This paper describes an initial evaluation of systems that answer questions seeking definitions. The results suggest that humans agree sufficiently as to what the basic concepts that should be included in the definition of a particular subject are to permit the computation of concept recall. Computing concept precision is more problematic, however. Using the length in characters of a definition...

In this paper we introduce a technique for creating searchable translation memories. Linear B’s searchable translation memories allow a translator to type in a phrase and retrieve a ranked list of possible translations for that phrase, which is ordered based on the likelihood of the translations. The searchable translation memories use translation models similar to those used in statistical mac...