BACKGROUND A reliable and valid global staging scale has been lacking within dementia care. OBJECTIVE To develop an easy-to-use multi-dimensional clinical staging schedule for dementia. METHODS The schedule was developed through: i) Two series of focus groups (40 and 48 participants, respectively) in Denmark, France, Germany, Netherlands, Spain, Switzerland, and UK with a multi-disciplinary...

BACKGROUND Systematic reviews of the relationship between non-manipulated factors (e.g. low empathy) and offending are becoming more common, and it is important to consider the methodological quality of studies included in such reviews. AIMS To assess aspects of the reliability and validity of the Cambridge Quality Checklists, a set of three measures for examining the methodological quality o...

Recognizing spatial information associated with events expressed in natural language text is essential for the proper interpretation of such events. However, the associations between events and spatial information found throughout the text have been much less studied than other types of spatial association as looked into in SpatialML and ISO-Space. In this paper, we present an annotation framew...

Methods Audit using a cross sectional design with an opportunistic sample of 47 clinically based mental health nursing staff in a forensic medium secure unit. Participants had previously been trained in breakaway techniques. They were approached by the audit team on the ward and randomly selected one of five possible life-threatening assaults that they then had to breakaway from. Measures were ...

We introduce a large-scale semantic-network annotation effort based on the MutliNet formalism. Annotation is achieved via a process which incorporates several independent tools including a MultiNet graph editing tool, a semantic concept lexicon, a user-editable knowledge-base for semantic concepts, and a MultiNet parser. We present an evaluation metric for these semantic networks, allowing us t...

Although many psychometric tests, like Raven’s Progressive Matrices, are commonly evaluated according to total score, additional variables can lend insight into the underlying cognitive processes. We examine conceptual errors on the Raven’s Standard Progressive Matrices (SPM) test. We present a complete classification of error types on the SPM using a two-kind coding scheme, yielding ≥ 95% inte...

The IFCASL corpus is a French-German bilingual phonetic learner corpus designed, recorded and annotated in a project on individualized feedback in computer-assisted spoken language learning. The motivation for setting up this corpus was that there is no phonetically annotated and segmented corpus for this language pair of comparable of size and coverage. In contrast to most learner corpora, the...

In this paper the dialogue act annotation of naive and expert annotators, both annotating the same data, are compared in order to characterise the insights annotations made by different kind of annotators may provide for evaluating dialogue act tagsets. It is argued that the agreement among naive annotators provides insight in the clarity of the tagset, whereas agreement among expert annotators...

Quantifying sweat gland activation provides important information when explaining differences in sweat rate between populations and physiological conditions. However, no standard technique has been proposed to measure sweat gland activation, while the reliability of sweat gland activation measurements is unknown. We examined the interrater and internal reliability of the modified-iodine paper t...

One of the central tasks in the annual MIREX evaluation campaign is the ”Audio Music Similarity and Retrieval (AMS)” task. Songs which are ranked as being highly similar by algorithms are evaluated by human graders as to how similar they are according to their subjective judgment. By analyzing results from the AMS tasks of the years 2006 to 2013 we demonstrate that: (i) due to low inter-rater a...