Motivation: We here present OncoScore, an open-source tool and R package that implements a novel text-mining method capable of ranking genes according to their association to cancer, based on available biomedical literature on PubMed. OncoScore can scan the biomedical literature with dynamically updatable web queries and measure the association to cancer of each gene by considering their citati...

This paper describes a new web interface for accessing large transcribed spoken data collections. The system uses automatic or manual time-aligned transcriptions with speaker and topic segmentation information to present structured speech data more efficiently and make accessing relevant speech data quicker. The system is independent of the underlying speech processing technology. The software ...

We present ANNISVis, a webapp for comparative visualization of geographical distribution of linguistic data, as well as a sample deployment for a corpus of Middle High German texts. Unlike existing geographical visualization solutions, which work with pre-existing data sets, or are bound to specific corpora, ANNISVis allows the user to formulate multiple ad-hoc queries and visualizes them on a ...

The clinical documents stored in a textual and unstructured manner represent a precious source of information that can be gathered by exploiting Information Retrieval techniques. Classification algorithms, and their composition through Ensemble Methods, can be used for organizing this huge amount of data, but are usually tested on standardized corpora, which significantly differ from actual cli...

Informal judgments of sentence acceptability have long been the primary source of evidence about grammaticality in syntax, and have been controversial just as long. In the past decade, there has been growing interest in collecting and analyzing acceptability judgments according to the formal protocols of experimental psycholinguistics, an approach sometimes called experimental syntax. This arti...

We have implemented an ontology-based text-mining tool for predicting disease outbreaks. This tool is designed to be used as a free and open-source plug-in for InSTEDD’s interactive biosurveillance system Riff. Availability. This tool, in its source code, is freely available from http://code.google.com/p/e-dop/.

This paper introduces a new architecture that aims at combining molecular biology data with information automatically extracted from relevant scientific literature (using text mining techniques on PubMed abstracts and fulltext papers) to help biomedical experts to interpret experimental results in hand. The infrastructural level bears on semantic-web technologies and standards that facilitate t...

In translation, choosing appropriate equivalent is essential to convey the right message from source-text to target-text, and one of the issues that may have a determinative role in appropriate equivalent choice is the semantic prosody (SP) behavior of words and the relation existing between the SP of a word and semantic senses (i.e. negativity, positivity or neutrality) of its collocations in ...

We present a software to read texts with emotional expression. The software is developed as part of the Emofilt open source emotional speech synthesis software. The affective storyteller consists of a text editor which offers a set of emotional speaking styles that can be used to mark up the text. The system was validated in a perception experiment and, although the number of participants wasn’...