Summarization of electronic discussion fora is a unique challenge; techniques that work startlingly well on monolithic documents tend to fare poorly in this informal setting. Additionally, conventional techniques ignore much of the structures that have the potential to serve as valuable features in the summarization task. We present several novel examples of such features, including the catalys...

1. Serviço de Pneumologia e de Terapia Intensiva, Hospital Universitário, Universidade Federal de Juiz de Fora, Juiz de Fora (MG) Brasil. Noninvasive ventilation (NIV) is an important supportive measure for patients with acute respiratory failure. In patients with COPD exacerbation or acute cardiogenic pulmonary edema, for example, NIV is associated with reduced mortality and decreased need for...

M. J. V. Bell,* V. Anjos, L. M. Moreira, R. F. Falci, L. R. P. Kassab, D. S. da Silva, J. L. Doualan, P. Camy, and R. Moncorgé Laboratório de Espectroscopia de Materiais, Departamento de Física, Universidade Federal de Juiz de Fora, Juiz de Fora-MG, Brazil Laboratório de Tecnologia em Materiais Fotônicos e Optoeletrônicos, Faculdade de Tecnologia de São Paulo, CEETEPS/UNESP, Saõ Paulo, Brazil D...

A policy question was posed in 2001 to Canadian publics: should Canada proceed with clinical trials on xenotransplantation and if so, under what conditions? As part of its development of policy and regulations on this medical technology, Health Canada and the Canadian Public Health Association implemented a public consultation process that included a public opinion survey and deliberative citiz...

1Department of Electrical Circuit, Federal University of Juiz de Fora, CEP 36036-330 Juiz de Fora, Brazil 2Department of Electrical Engineering, Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro, CEP 22453-900 Rio de Janeiro, Brazil 3The Edward S. Rogers SR., Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada M5S 3G4 4Department of Signals and Systems, ...

1. Serviço de Pneumologia e Terapia Intensiva, Hospital Universitário, Universidade Federal de Juiz de Fora, Juiz de Fora (MG) Brasil. Mechanical ventilation (MV) is one of the most common supportive measures employed in ICU and is fundamental in maintaining life under certain conditions.(1) However, MV can be associated with serious complications, such as pneumonia, tracheobronchitis, critical...

Analysis of Emotion in Health Fora Studies about emotion in fora are numerous in Linguistics and Psychology. This contribution approaches this subject from an Information and Communication Sciences point of view, and studies emotion as a criteron of pertinence for patients in a health forum. This paper introduces the empirical step of automatic language processing in order to answer this questi...

S. E. Canton, 2, ∗ A. J. Yencha, E. Kukk, J. D. Bozek, M. C. A. Lopes, G. Snell, and N. Berrah Department of Physics, Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo MI 49008 Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, ALS, University of California, Berkeley CA 94720 Department of Chemistry, State University of New-York at Albany, Albany, NY 12222 Department of Physical Sciences, Oulu University, Linnanmaa, ...