This paper describes a method to extract medical information from texts. The method targets to extract complaints and diagnoses from electronic health record texts. Complaints and diagnoses are fundamental information and can be used for more complex medical tasks. The method utilizes several medical knowledge resources to enhance the performance of extraction. With an evaluation using NTCIR10 ...

Sir,?The present diet of the Tamils is not what is prescribed in their Ancient Medical Texts. These texts are written by Saints like Thiruvalluvar, Thirumular, Agastiar, etc., who are generally known as ' Siddar' in Tamil. Owing to foreign influence and influx of time, their diet has undergone several changes all for the worse. In this letter I don't propose to give you the full details of the ...

The openness of the Web allows any user to access almost any type of information. However, some information, such as adult content, is not appropriate for all users, notably children. Additionally for adults, some contents included in abnormal porn sites can do ordinary people’s mental health harm. In this paper, we propose an efficient 2-way text filter for blocking harmful web documents and a...

This paper describes and evaluates a prototype quality assurance system for LSP corpora. The system will be employed in compiling a corpus of 11 M tokens for various linguistic and terminological purposes. The system utilizes a number of linguistic features as quality indicators. These represent two dimensions of quality, namely readability/formality (e.g. word length and passive constructions)...

India is a varietal emporium of the medicinal and aromatic plants (MAPs) and we have well-established local healthcare tradition still relevant in indigenous healthcare system 1,2 . As per World Health Organisation (WHO) estimates, almost 80% of the population of developing countries relies on traditional medicines, mostly plant drugs, for their primary health care needs 3-5 . In developed coun...

We evaluated properties of knowledge resources that can be used for building new semantically and behaviorally motivated resources of health guidance and clinical decision making by modeling patterns of creation, modification and retrieval of medical knowledge. We evaluated statistical properties of Wikipedia articles of general terminology and medical terminology based on 25 most common diagno...

One of the benefits of the comparative study of legal institutions is that it exposes the extent to which they are shaped by contingency as well as by logic or principle. What is regarded in one jurisdiction as the only possible or acceptable way of doing something is often revealed to be pure preconception. In other words, the comparative study of law can act as a balance to the unconscious et...

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Discrimination of tree species with different ages is performed in three classifications using hyperspectral data. The first classification is between Broadleaves and pines; the second classification is between Broadleaves, Corsican Pines, and Scots Pines, and the third classification is between six tree species including different ages of Corsican and Scots Pines. These three classifications a...