Background The need for competence training and development in health management and leadership workforces has been emphasised. However, evidence of the outcomes and impact of such training and development has not been systematically assessed. The aim of this review is to synthesise the available evidence of the outcomes and impact of training and development in relation to the competence of he...

Existing knowledge-based question answering systems often rely on small annotated training data. While shallow methods like information extraction techniques are robust to data scarcity, they are less expressive than deep understanding methods, thereby failing at answering questions involving multiple constraints. Here we alleviate this problem by empowering a relation extraction method with ad...

it  is  the  tribal  structure  of  society  and  power  with  which  one  can  explain  many  developments  in  ancient  iran  in  particular  in  the  achaemenian  period.  the  ancient  authors  confirm  that  seven  families with various  names  played  an  important  role  in  political,  economic and  military  structures  of  persia  from  this time  up  to  the end of  sasanian  period....

CWI used PF/Tijah, a flexible XML retrieval system, to evaluate image retrieval based on textual evidence in the context of the wikipediaMM task at ImageCLEF 2008. We employed a language modelling framework and found that the text associated with the Wikipedia images is a good source of evidence. We also investigated a length prior and found that biasing towards images with longer descriptions ...

There are several approaches to extract geo-knowledge from documents and textual fields in databases. Most of them focus on detecting geographic evidence, from which the associated geographic location can be determined. This paper is based on a different premise – geo-knowledge can be extracted even from non-geographic evidence, taking advantage of the linked data paradigm. The paper gives an o...

With the rising influence of the Gene Ontology, new approaches have emerged where the similarity between genes or gene products is obtained by comparing Gene Ontology code annotations associated with them. So far, these approaches have solely relied on the knowledge encoded in the Gene Ontology and the gene annotations associated with the Gene Ontology database. The goal of this paper is to dem...