We attempted to eliminate non-relevant papers from results of PubMed searches for each topic. The system is called PETER (PubMed Enhancer Toward Efficient Research) and it works as follows. 1. get LocusLink IDs manually. 2. collect information of gene names (AKA synonyms) from public databases. 3. make synonym variations automatically. 4. search papers by PubMed with each synonym. 5. extract ti...

You may have heard of the National Cancer Moonshot Initiative led by former Vice President Joe Biden. It has brought together many people through a task force, blue ribbon panel, and many public forums to discuss how best "to dramatically accelerate efforts to prevent, diagnose, and treat cancer - to achieve a decade's worth of progress in 5 years." This initiative was launched after the 2016 S...

What distinguishes a company that has deeply engaged and committed employees from another one that doesn't? It's not a certain compensation scheme or talent-management practice. Instead, it's the ability to express to current and potential employees what makes the organization unique. Companies with highly engaged employees articulate their values and attributes through "signature experiences"-...

Medical terminologies and ontologies are important tools for natural language processing of health record narratives. To account for the variability of language use, synonyms need to be stored in a semantic resource as textual instantiations of a concept. Developing such resources manually is, however, prohibitively expensive and likely to result in low coverage. To facilitate and expedite the ...

Because the Princeton WordNet has proved a valuable resource in NLP, many approaches have been developed to support the automatic creation of WordNets for languages other than English. In this paper, we present a method for grouping synonyms and definitions which we believe, can provide the basis for a merge approach to WordNet creation, that is an approach which starts by defining synsets (gro...

This article examines the effects of synonymy (i.e., learning words with and without high-frequency synonyms that were known to the learners) on word knowledge in a study of 84 Japanese students learning English. It employed 10 tests measuring 5 aspects of word knowledge (orthography, paradigmatic association, syntagmatic association, meaning and form, and grammatical functions) to assess learn...

Pattern matching has proven to be a convenient, expressive way of inspecting data. Yet this language feature, in its traditional form, is limited: patterns must be data constructors of concrete data types. No computation or abstraction is allowed. The data type in question must be concrete, with no ability to enforce any invariants. Any change in this data type requires all clients to update th...