In many contexts, pronouns are interpreted as referring to the character mentioned first in the previous sentence, an effect called the ‘firstmention bias’. While adults can rapidly use the first-mention bias to guide pronoun interpretation, it is unclear when this bias emerges during development. Curiously, experiments with children between two and three years old show successful use of order ...

The automatic identification of location expressions in social media text is an actively researched task. We present a novel approach to detection mentions of locations in the texts of microblogs and social media. We propose an approach based on Noun Phrase extraction and n-gram based matching instead of the traditional methods using Named Entity Recognition (NER) or Conditional Random Fields (...

Despite an increasing amount of research on biomedical named entity recognition, there has been not enough work done on disease mention recognition. Difficulty of obtaining adequate corpora is one of the key reasons which hindered this particular research. Previous studies argue that correct identification of disease mentions is the key issue for further improvement of the disease-centric knowl...

MOTIVATION Anatomical entities ranging from subcellular structures to organ systems are central to biomedical science, and mentions of these entities are essential to understanding the scientific literature. Despite extensive efforts to automatically analyze various aspects of biomedical text, there have been only few studies focusing on anatomical entities, and no dedicated methods for learnin...

We review the standard JPEG2000 for still image compression and mention some typical applications. Special weight is put onto the core coding system described in Part 1 and the compound image file format for document imaging described in Part 6 including a section on image segmentation. Index Terms — JPEG2000, still image compression, mixed raster graphics, segmentation

We describe a cross-corpora evaluation of disease mention recognition for two annotated biomedical corpora: the Human Variome Project Corpus and the Arizona Disease Corpus. Our analysis of the performance of a state-of-the-art NER tool in terms of the characteristics and annotation schema of these corpora shows that these factors significantly affect performance.

Some recent publications on ferromagnetic resonance in amorphous wires mention presumably new kind of anisotropy, called there circumferential anisotropy , as an explanation of various observed spectral features. In this paper we argue that there is no special reason to speak of the new kind of anisotropy, since the observed spectra can be well described in terms of more traditional uniaxial an...