Common evaluations have grown to be a major component of all the ARPA Human Language Technology programs. In the written language community, the largest evaluation program has been the series of Message Understanding Conferences, which began in 1987 [2,3]. These evaluations have focussed on the task of analyzing text and automatically filling templates describing certain classes of events. Thes...

OBJECTIVES To assess the effectiveness of adding a simulated anticoagulation clinic practical examination for formal assessment of PharmD students' skills. DESIGN A practical examination requiring students to review a mock medical record and role-play a follow-up anticoagulation clinic visit with a standardized patient was designed. Students assessed the patient's vital signs, laboratory valu...

PURPOSE Damage to left perisylvian cortex often results in impaired phonological processing abilities with written language profiles consistent with phonological alexia and phonological agraphia. The purpose of this article was to examine a behavioral treatment sequence for such individuals intended to strengthen phonological processing and links between phonology and orthography, as well as tr...

In a virtual point-to-origin task, participants seem to show different response patterns and underlying strategies for orientation, such as "turner" and "non-turner" response patterns. Turners respond as if succeeding to update simulated heading changes, and non-turners respond as if failing to update their heading, resulting in left-right hemisphere errors. We present two other response patter...

Sargur N. Srihari & Rohini K. Srihari State University of New York at Bu alo, New York, USA The written form of language is contained in printed documents, such as newspapers, magazines and books, and in handwritten matter, such as found in notebooks and personal letters. Given the importance of written language in human transactions, its automatic recognition has practical signi cance. This ov...

OBJECTIVE The purpose of this study was to implement and assess the R-I-M-E (Reporter, Interpreter, Manager, Educator) system as a method for evaluation for medical students during the obstetrics and gynecology core clerkship. STUDY DESIGN With the R-I-M-E method (which is an objective framework for evaluation), mid clerkship review sessions are held during which residents verbally assess eac...

By emphasizing the most noticeable part of gestures, the gesture stroke, this study investigated the spontaneous development of sign-systems created by two adult, non-native speakers of English while they summarized academic text for an audience. The focus of the study is on how participants integrated the sign systems of gesture, speech, and graphic organizers to make meaning across very short...

A number of elite thinkers in Europe during the 16 th and 17 th centuries pursued an agenda which historian Paolo Rossi calls the “quest for a universal language,” a quest which was deeply interwoven with the emergence of the scientific method. From a modern perspective, one of the many surprising aspects of these efforts is that they relied on a diverse array of memorization techniques as foun...

This study attempted to establish an image of a science writer based on a synthesis of writing theory, models, and research literature on academic writing in science and other disciplines and to contrast this image with an actual prototypical image of scientists as writers of science. The synthesis was used to develop a questionnaire to assess scientists’ writing habits, beliefs, strategies, an...

An introduction to various topics in neutrino astrophysics is given for students with little prior exposure to this field. We explain neutrino production and propagation in stars, neutrino oscillations, and experimental searches for this effect. We also touch upon the cosmological role of neutrinos. A number of exercises is also included.