A major part of the focus for this year’s Association for Medical Humanities conference in Truro (10–12 July) will be to examine the perspective of the artist within medical humanities. In part, this is being raised because it is felt that individual artists can become invisible in our field; it is their work that is displayed, discussed, made example of, often without attribution. One of us re...

In an age of electronic and mental distraction, the ability to pay attention is a fundamental legal skill increasingly important for law students and the lawyers and judges they will become, not only for professional effectiveness, but also to avoid error resulting from distraction. Far from being immutable, engaged attention can be learned. More specifically, with an understanding of how the a...

In spoken language translation (SLT), finding proper segmentation and reconstructing punctuation marks are not only significant but also challenging tasks. In this paper we present our recent work on speech translation quality analysis for German-English by improving sentence segmentation and punctuation. From oracle experiments, we show an upper bound of translation quality if we had human-gen...

The fuzziness of Chinese sentence boundary makes discourse analysis more challenging. Moreover, many articles posted on the Internet are even lack of punctuation marks. In this paper, we collect documents written by masters as a reference corpus and propose a model to label the punctuation marks for the given text. Conditional random field (CRF) models trained with the corpus determine the corr...

Before advancing in every step of development in medicine, researchers may experience a period of agony. However, once that painful step is overcome, progress to the next step is possible. Thanks to such agony, new research products, theories, and technologies are produced, that can be applied in the medical field after undergoing peer-reviews. During these stages of conquest and progress, acad...