This is our third participation in CLEF, this time in the Spanish monolingual Question Answering track. We have continued applying Natural Language Processing techniques for single word conflation. Our approach for Question Answering is based on complex pattern matching either over forms, part-of-speech tags or lemmas of the words involved.

BACKGROUND Patient organization participation in health policy decision making is an understudied area of inquiry. A handful of qualitative studies have suggested that the growing number of patient organizations in Europe and their increasing involvement in policy issues do not result in high political effectiveness. However, existing research is largely country-specific. OBJECTIVE To examine...

This paper describes our participation in Knowledge Base Population track at TAC2010. In the entity-linking task, we combined machine learning-based methods and rule-based methods to improve the linking results. In the slot filling task, a supervised machine learning method based on CRF model and a rule pattern method were used to select proper answers for slots.

BACKGROUND Participation in sport has many health benefits, and is popular amongst children. However participation decreases with age. While the membership records of peak sports organisations have improved markedly in recent years, there has been little research into sport participation trends across the lifespan. This study investigates age profiles of participation in sport and compares thes...

OBJECTIVES The Diagnosis Related Group (DRG) payment system, which has been implemented in Korea since 1997, is based on voluntary participation. Hence, the positive impact of this system depends on the participation of physicians. This study examined the factors determining participation of Korean obstetrics & gynecology (OBGYN) clinics in the DRG-based payment system. METHODS The demographi...

INTRODUCTION We report on the effect of an incentive-based wellness program on medical claims and hospital admissions among members of a major health insurer. The focus of this investigation was specifically on fitness-related activities in this insured population. METHODS Adult members of South Africa's largest private health insurer (n = 948,974) were grouped, a priori, on the basis of docu...

To evaluate the relative role of left and right hemispheres (RH) and describe the functional anatomy of RH during ortholinguistic tasks, we re-analyzed the 128 papers of a former left-hemisphere (LH) meta-analysis (Vigneau et al., 2006). Of these, 59 articles reported RH participation, providing 105 RH language contrasts including 218 peaks compared to 728 on the left, a proportion reflecting t...

OBJECTIVE We investigated the association between leisure time exercise participation and well-being (i.e., life satisfaction and happiness) and examined the causality underlying this association. METHOD The association between exercise participation and well-being was assessed in around 8000 subjects, (age range 18-65 years) from The Netherlands Twin Registry (NTR). Causality was tested with...

Children with developmental disorders affecting learning and behaviour (DDALB) (e.g., attention, social communication, language, and learning disabilities, etc.) require individualized support across multiple environments to promote participation, quality of life, and developmental outcomes. Support to enhance participation is based largely on individual profiles of functioning (e.g., communica...

The plating industry is one of the main toxic chemicals consumers, which uses various chemicals, including solvents, acids, bases, cleansers, sophisticated organic ingredients, and metal salts of cadmium, nickel and chromium. Due to the growing production of industrial waste in spite of actions related to these wastes’ management, no comprehensive pattern was introduced at different levels. Thi...