L 'anatomie ct la pathologie du systeme lymphatique sont discutees a la lumieres des etudes lymphographiques. Ces etudes ont surtout demontre l'indeoendance relative des deux systemes lymphatiques superficiel et profond et lamplexite des anomalies que l'en rencontre a leur niveau. Les lymphoedeme primaires sont distangues. Les nouvel­les tec'.111iques operatoires employees pour le traitement de...

The most important part of patent specification is where the claims are written. It is common that claims written in Japanese are described in one sentence with peculiar style and are difficult to understand for ordinary people. We are investigating NLP technologies to improve readability of patent claims. To do so, it is necessary to present the structure of patent claims in a readable way. We...

I am concerned here with the structure of Degree Phrases which introduce Result clauses. After demonstrating that degree words select these clauses, I look at some previous proposals regarding this structure. I consider Abney's (1987) account, an extraposition-based version using Jackendoff's (1977) work, and finally Baltin (1987), which involves both selection and extraposition. Next, I introd...

Japanese has many noun phrase patterns of the type A no B consisting of two nouns A and B with an adnominal particle no. As the semantic relations between the two nouns in the noun phrase are not made explicit, the interpretation of the phrases depends mainly on the semantic characteristics of the nouns. This paper describes the semantic diversity of A no B and a method of semantic analysis for...

  The effect of different doses (1-50 µ M) of imipramine (IMI) and desipramine (DES) on the rate and force of contraction of isolated rat atria was studied. IMI and DES produced a dose-dependent increase in force of contraction (31- 94% for IMI and 35-118% for DES). Pretreatment of rats with reserpine (5 mg/kg) on the isolated atria with propranolol (1 µ g) inhibited the positive ionotropic eff...

This paper describes the intonation prediction algorithm used in the speech synthesis component of the SmartKom dialog system. Both prosodic phrasing and default accent prediction operate on syntactic structure generated by a language generation module. Two configurational rules are applied to find candidate prosodic phrases. A harmonization algorithm selects the best candidates taking into acc...