Extracting biomedical relations such as drug-drug interaction (DDI) from text is an important task in biomedical NLP. Due to the large number of complex sentences in biomedical literature, researchers have employed some sentence simplification techniques to improve the performance of the relation extraction methods. However, due to difficulty of the task, there is no noteworthy improvement in t...

We present the advantages of guided sentences composition for communicating in natural language with computers. We show how guidance can be achieved by means of the partial synthesis of sentences and describe our approach consisting in separating knowledge that comes under different levels of well-formedness and coroutining their treatment. This approach has led us to develop in Prolog a softwa...

C ongenital heart disease (CHD) is one of the most common inborn defects, occurring in 0.5-1.2% of newborns. Increasing numbers of affected infants now survive into adulthood, which is a estament to the major advances in surgical technique, post-operative are, and medical treatment. The number of adults with CHD in the U.S. as reached 800,000, and this number will undoubtedly continue to row wi...

lderly patients present clinical and functional heterogeneity. hus the chronological age (60 years and older) alone does not haracterize this group of individuals correctly. Performance tatus scales such as the Karnofsky Performance Scale (KPS)1 r Eastern Cooperative Oncologic Group Scale (ECOG),2 are sed by hematologists in decision making for elderly patients ith cancer. Good performance stat...