This paper presents a linguistic-based approach to term extraction from corpora in the biomedical domain. The method is based on an analysis of terms and their context that verify linguistic constraints. It focuses on participles and prepositional complements. The purpose of our approach is to obtain terms that are relevant for knowledge acquisition applications, such as the creation and enrich...

We consider mapping unrestricted natural language to formal spatial representations. We describe ongoing work on a two-level machine learning approach. The first level is linguistic, and deals with the extraction of spatial information from natural language sentences, and is called spatial role labeling. The second level is ontological in nature, and deals with mapping this linguistic, spatial ...

In recent years there has been a growing interest in the commercial deployment of NLP technologies. This paper presents SiSSA, a project whose main aim is that of developing an infrastructure for prototyping, editing and validation of NLP application architectures. The system will provide the user with a graphical environment for (1) selecting the NLP activities relevant for the particular NLP ...

In this paper, we present a validation approach of detected alignment links between dialog transcript and discussed documents, in the context of a multimodal document alignment framework of multimedia events (meetings and lectures). The validation approach consists in an entailment process of the detected alignment links. This entailment process exploits several features, from the structural le...

BACKGROUND Physicians' clinical decision-making may be influenced by non-analytical thinking, especially when perceiving uncertainty. Incidental gut feelings in general practice have been described, namely, as "a sense of alarm" and "a sense of reassurance". A Dutch Gut Feelings Questionnaire (GFQ) was developed, validated and afterwards translated into English following a linguistic validation...

Relation extraction between entities from text plays an important role in information extraction and knowledge discovery related tasks. Relation extraction systems produce a large number of candidates where many of them are not correct. A relation validation method justifies a claimed relation based on the information provided by a system. In this paper, we propose some features by analyzing th...

OBJECTIVE We conducted a systematic review of the literature about quality-of-life (QOL) scales in chronic venous disorders (CVDs) comprising leg ulcers to identify the respective advantages and deficits of existing tools. METHODS A research protocol was built following the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses (PRISMA) statement and the PICO (population, interven...

This paper described recent activities of the Linguistic Data Consortium in the collection, annotation and distribution of language data the developments of tools and standards for using that data, the creation of metadata to facilitate the search for linguistic resources.

Although it prefigures many advances in linguistic theory, the scholarship of nineteenth century scholar Mikołaj Kruszewski is today largely forgotten. In these papers I hope to rectify this situation somewhat by introducing Kruszewski’s insights to modern discourse on phonology. In addition to a detailed summary of Kruszewski’s major work, An Outline of Linguistic Science (Očerk Nauki O Jazyke...

Although it prefigures many advances in linguistic theory, the scholarship of nineteenth century scholar Mikołaj Kruszewski is today largely forgotten. In these papers I hope to partially rectify this situation by introducing Kruszewski’s insights to modern discourse on phonology. In addition to a detailed summary of Kruszewski’s major work, An Outline of the Science of Language (Očerk Nauki O ...