With unstructured text on the web and social media increasing at a furious pace, it is all the more important to develop techniques that can ease semantic understanding of text data for humans. One of the key tasks in this process is that of entity linking; identifying mentions of entities in text. Consider the line that reads “The Prime Minister came under harsh criticism over the Immigration ...

US president Barack Obama has called the problem of antimicrobial resistance “a serious threat to public health and the economy.” In the UK, Sally Davies, chief medical officer for England, declared the problem “as important as global warming,” and a “ticking time-bomb”while the primeminister, David Cameron, says: “we are in danger of going back to the dark ages of medicine.” Over the past few ...

the democratic system is applied by three methods; by the representatives of people (indirect or representative democracy); by the people and their representative; and by the people themselves. in the constitution of the countries who accepted the national sovereignty doctrine the people's regime will be only applied by their representatives (like members of parliament, primeminister, the ...

The Japan Medical Association (JMA), the largest doctors’ group in the country, which represents most private practices and local clinics, is opposing reforms of the universal healthcare system proposed by the government as part of its attempts to deregulate the economy. PrimeMinister Shinzo Abe, who took power in December 2012, has included healthcare reform as a central pillar of the “third a...

The technical paper proposes to analyse and discuss the trends and developments in the UK transport smartcard market and discuss the technical, operational and business challenges and opportunities for the future roll out of innovative transport smartcard schemes in the UK. The use of an electronic smart card as an alternative means for users to access and pay for transport services is now emer...