Background Social media sites are becoming more and more popular within the healthcare industry. There is a huge potential in research for using different social media sites for retention and looking at their long term effects in a longitudinal study like the CHILD study – something not yet looked into at depth [1]. At present, most social media sites in research are involved in recruiting part...

Where knowledge fails controversies thrive. This applies particularly to techniques in evolution. Intra-arterial thrombolysis (IAT) for basilar artery thrombosis and stenting for asymptomatic carotid disease share 3 characteristics: they are operator-dependent, technology-intensive and expensive. Although IAT and stenting imply a similar approach, the clinical problems that they address differ ...

In this paper, we describe our approach taken in the MSM2013 IE Challenge, which was aimed at concept extraction from microposts. The goal of the approach was to combine several existing NER tools which use different classification methods and benefit from their combination. Several NER tools have been chosen and individually evaluated on the challenge training set. We observed that some of the...