Objectives: To automatically extend downwards an existing biomedical terminology using a corpus and both lexical and terminological knowledge. Methods: Adjectival modifiers are removed from terms extracted from the corpus (three million noun phrases extracted from MEDLINE), and demodified terms are searched for in the terminology (UMLS Metathesaurus, restricted to disorders and procedures). A p...

Facebook forms one of the most widely used online social networks, through which people manage their communication with diverse contacts or ‘friends’, ranging from members family and schoolmates to work colleagues popular cultural idols other people, whom they admire. Hence, it can be seen as an integral part people’s digital presence. Against this backdrop, aim paper is investigate ways polite...

Although intonation has been traditionally associated with the expression of attitudes and intentions on the part of the speaker, little is known about whether sociopragmatic factors, such as power or social distance, or situational ones, like physical distance or insistence, can constrain the use and felicity of pitch contours. This article investigates the felicity conditions underlying the c...