We present a study of information status in scientific text as well as ongoing work on the resolution of coreferent and associative anaphora in two different scientific disciplines, namely computational linguistics and genetics. We present an annotated corpus of over 8000 definite descriptions in scientific articles. To adapt a state-of-the-art coreference resolver to the new domain, we develop...

Relating one’s research to the vast body of scientific knowledge is a difficult task; the sheer volume of literature makes it difficult to keep up-to-date with scientific developments. Particularly when research is on-going, keeping track of related work is especially important to avoid an unintended duplication of effort. We outline a novel approach to this problem that uses the text in an Ele...

Non-uniform terminology in the world's venous literature has continued to pose a significant hindrance to the dissemination of knowledge regarding the management of chronic venous disorders. This VEIN-TERM consensus document was developed by a transatlantic interdisciplinary faculty of experts under the auspices of the American Venous Forum (AVF), the European Venous Forum (EVF), the Internatio...

In order to assess the adequacy of informed consent terminology of research projects developed at the Clementino Fraga Filho University Hospital (Federal University of Rio de Janeiro) , we conducted a review study on the terminology found in 55 projects (2008-20013) . Such projects belonged to different medical specialties and were all registered in the hospital's Ethics in Research Committee. ...

The goals of the subcommittee were to review the current practice and published evidence of medical and surgical treatment options for meibomian gland dysfunction (MGD) and to identify areas with conflicting, or lack of, evidence, observations, concepts, or even mechanisms where further research is required. To achieve these goals, a comprehensive review of clinical textbooks and the scientific...

In this paper we describe the X-TRACT workbench, which enables efficient termbased querying against a domain-specific literature corpus. Its main aim is to aid domain specialists in locating and extracting new knowledge from scientific literature corpora. Before querying, a corpus is automatically terminologically analysed by the ATRACT system, which performs terminology recognition based on th...

Huge volumes of scientific databases and text collections are constantly becoming available, but their usefulness is at present hampered by their lack of uniformity and structure. There is therefore an overwhelming need for tools to facilitate the processing and discovery of technical terminology, in order to make processing of these resources more efficient. Both NLP and statistical techniques...

MOTIVATION The automatic analysis of scientific literature can support authors in writing their manuscripts. IMPLEMENTATION PaperMaker is a novel IT solution that receives a scientific manuscript via a Web interface, automatically analyses the publication, evaluates consistency parameters and interactively delivers feedback to the author. It analyses the proper use of acronyms and their defin...