Clinical TempEval 2015 brought the temporal information extraction tasks of past TempEval campaigns to the clinical domain. Nine sub-tasks were included, covering problems in time expression identification, event expression identification and temporal relation identification. Participant systems were trained and evaluated on a corpus of clinical notes and pathology reports from the Mayo Clinic,...

OBJECTIVES Because training residents and faculty to identify human trafficking victims is a major public health priority, the authors review existing assessment tools. METHODS PubMed and Google were searched using combinations of search terms including human, trafficking, sex, labor, screening, identification, and tool. RESULTS Nine screening tools that met the inclusion criteria were foun...

Clinical TempEval 2016 evaluated temporal information extraction systems on the clinical domain. Nine sub-tasks were included, covering problems in time expression identification, event expression identification and temporal relation identification. Participant systems were trained and evaluated on a corpus of clinical and pathology notes from the Mayo Clinic, annotated with an extension of Tim...

This material is compiled for the course Empirical Modelling. Sections marked with a star (∗) are not central in the courses. The main source of inspiration when writing this text has been Chapter 4 in the book ”System Identification” by Söderström and Stoica (Prentice Hall, 1989) which also may be consulted for a more thorough treatment of the material presented here. The book is available for...

The volume of available information is growing daily and it thus becomes increasingly difficult to organize, search and access this information. In this paper we present a novel concept which allows for acquiring, organizing and finding relevant information, related to a particular physical environment efficiently. We describe the SPOT-IT system, which uses the devised concept to offer aid to t...

The VeriChip is a Radio-Frequency Identification (RFID) tag produced commercially for implantation in human beings. Its proposed uses include identification of medical patients, physical access control, contactless retail payment, and even the tracing of kidnapping victims. As the authors explain, the VeriChip is vulnerable to simple, over-the-air spoofing attacks. In particular, an attacker ca...

Automatic Toll Tax systems have really helped a lot in reducing the heavy congestion caused in the metropolitan cities of today. It is one of the easiest methods used to organize the heavy flow of traffic. When the car moves through the toll gate on any road, it is indicated on the RFID reader that it has crossed the clearing. The need for manual toll based systems is completely reduced in this...

The presence of RFID technology in every-day life is expected to become a reality in the near future. Yet, as RFID tags enter consumer households and threaten to identify their owners’ belongings, whereabouts and habits concerns arise about the maintenance of privacy. People are afraid of being ‘scanned’ or tracked with the help of a technology that is invisible to them and not under their cont...

This working paper presents our initial efforts to develop a benchmarking methodology for RFID middleware. In the paper, we conduct a context analysis to help focus the benchmarking on the right middleware features and metrics. Pairwise based workload generation is proposed to minimize the efforts and optimize the usefulness of the workload generated. A value driven benchmarking analysis framew...

The paper describes an active research project at Intel’s High Volume Manufacturing (HVM) facility located at Leixlip, Co. Kildare, Ireland. The project explores the practical aspects of deploying RFID transponders, subtle sensing platforms and machine learning based inferencing in a harsh, realworld environment. The key features of the sensing platform, the data collection process and the tran...