Information extraction systems incorporate multiple stages of linguistic analysis. Although errors are typically compounded from stage to stage, it is possible to reduce the errors in one stage by harnessing the results of the other stages. We demonstrate this by using the results of coreference analysis and relation extraction to reduce the errors produced by a Chinese name tagger. We use an N...

We present a novel approach for extraction of minutiae features from fingerprint images. The proposed approach is based on the use of logical templates for minutiae extraction in the presence of data distortion. A logical template is an expression that is applied to the binary ridge (valley) image at selected potential locations to detect the presence of minutia at these locations. It is adapte...

Drug name recognition (DNR), which seeks to recognize drug mentions in unstructured medical texts and classify them into pre-defined categories, is a fundamental task of medical information extraction, and is a key component of many medical relation extraction systems and applications. A large number of efforts have been devoted to DNR, and great progress has been made in DNR in the last severa...

Serial plasmaphereses were performed on a 23-year-old haemophiliac, with antibodies to factor VIII (FVIII), in order to reduce the antibody level before multiple dental extractions. Eight phereses were carried out in which approximately 1.5 litres plasma was exchanged with isotonic saline. By the ninth exchange, which was carried out immediately before the extraction, the antibody level had fal...

In this paper, we present a method for temporal relation extraction from clinical narratives in French and in English. We experiment on two comparable corpora, the MERLOT corpus for French and the THYME corpus for English, and show that a common approach can be used for both languages.

the aim of this work was to develop a selective cloud point extraction method for the separation and preconcentration of copper(ii) prior to spectrophotometric determination. for this purpose dithizone was used as a complexing agent and the experimental solution was acidified with sulfuric acid. triton x-114 was used as a surfactant and after phase separation, based on the cloud point of the mi...

use of saline water for irrigation has shown considerable promise. however, its effect on the solubility and bioavailability of native soil nutrients is not well understood. this study was conducted to evaluate the effects of salinity on the behavior of zinc(zn) in calcareous soils. the soil samples with different physiochemical properties were collected from four locations in khorasan province...

introdouction: injection of local anesthesia during dental procedures can induce metabolic changes. the purpose of this study was to evaluate the changes in the serum blood glucose levels after the injection of lidocaine with a vasoconstrictor during tooth extraction. materials and methods: in this clinical trial study, we enrolled 60 patients. we extracted mandibular teeth by using inferior al...

the reliability of gene expression profiling based technologies and methods to find transcriptional differences representative for the original samples is influenced by the quality of the extracted rna. hence, rna extraction is the first step to investigate the gene expression and its function. consequently, the quality of extracted rna is really significant. correspondingly, this research was ...