The Battifolle Letters Attributed to Dante

Research-agenda Bias: letters to the editor

The DANTE Temporal Expression Tagger

In this paper we present the DANTE system, a tagger for temporal expressions in English documents. DANTE performs both recognition and normalization of these expressions in accordance with the TIMEX2 annotation standard. The system is built on modular principles, with a clear separation between the recognition and normalisation components. The interface between these components is based on our ...

Letters to the editors.

Dear Sirs, In their letter Chatauret et al. [1] address an interesting issue: in hypothermic machine perfusion for kidney preservation we should have a better understanding of the machine effects versus solution effects. During the discussions concerning the study design the scientific steering committee also discussed which preservation solutions should be used. For more than 40 years, KPS-1 i...

Letters to the editors

To the Editors: In their recent publication, Swati S. Sathe and Peter J. Harte (Mech. Dev. 52,77-87, 1995) claim to have "reisolated' the extra sex combs (esc) gene of Drosophila from our published transgenic stock (Frei et aI., EMBO J. 4,979-987, 1985) by inverse PCR, using P element and rosy primers. This description is wrong because our published transgenic stock carried the esc trans gene w...

Letters to the Editors

We have to report (to our considerable embarrassment) a systematic error which has occurred in a series of papers that have appeared in the British Journal of Nutrition. The relevant papers and faults are shown separately. The mistakes arose as a consequence of a calculation error in the determination of blood flow in muscle. The method used was originally described by Pappenheimer & Setchell(l...