BACKGROUND Recreational drug toxicity is a common reason for presentation to the Emergency Department. Knowledge of recreational drug names is important to allow targeted assessment of patients presenting with recreational drug toxicity. AIMS To assess final year medical student knowledge of proper and street names for recreational drugs. DESIGN Questionnaire survey of final year medical st...

The majority of electronic data today is in textual form. Financial data such as articles in the Wall Street Journal are written as texts. These electronic documents contain a wealth of information but require human interpretation. For financial analysis, rapid up-to-date information is critical. Most software tools currently require data which are better structured than text (such as data in r...

We describe the name analysis and pronunciation component in the German version of the Bell Labs multilingual text-tospeech system. We concentrate on street names because they encompass interesting aspects of geographical and personal names. The system was implemented in the framework of finite-state transducer technology, using linguistic criteria as well as frequency distributions derived fro...

tire street children phenomenon is categorized as a social disorder that not only includes a great number of children and youngsters as society future capital with danger but also makes the society suffer of harms. therefore, in order to decrease this disorder we should understand its different dimensions and the factors influencing on it to find various scientific and practical solutions for i...

Nowadays, the expansion of the cities is an inevitable necessity; increasing the dependence of the citizens on motor vehicles and, consequently, making development of the transportation networks a necessity rather than an option. Thus, increasing car ownership and car use has created many problems for the cities, such as increasing greenhouse gas emissions, environmental pollution, casualties o...

In this paper we present the results of a practical exercise in matching records from two different legacy databases. This exercise is a portion of our work for the US Defense Logistics Agency, (DLA). It addresses the problem of identifying parts in the database of DLA managed items that match parts available from a commercial online catalog. A method of automatically generating approximate mat...

We describe an information extraction system in which four classes of naming expressions organisation, person, location and tinm names are recognised and classified with nearly 92% combined precision and recall. The system applies a mixture of techniques to perform this task and these are described in detail. We have quantitatively evaluated the system against a blind test set of Wall Street Jo...