This study investigates the effects of left- (LHD) or right-hemisphere damage (RHD) on the production of matched idiomatic or literal expressions by examining healthy listeners' abilities to identify, evaluate and perceptually characterize the utterances. Native speakers of Korean with LHD or RHD and healthy controls (HCs) produced six ditropically ambiguous (idiomatic or literal) sentences in ...

We explore the use of conditional random fields (CRFs) to automatically extract important metadata from clinical research articles. These metadata fields include formulaic metadata about the authors, extracted from the title page, as well as free text fields concerning the study’s critical parameters, such as longitudinal variables and medical intervention methods, extracted from the body text ...

Tradition Medicines as the name implies have been a cultural age long healing remedy practiced over the year and improved by casual and unformulated experiments, or in some case are totally forgotten with the passing away of the partition in cases where record have not been kept especially skin and bone related cancers with the use of traditional herbal formula and cultural approaches that need...

Pattern / Normalization Resources •1–4 digit years • “BC/AD” phrases Rules •several modifications and new rules • rules with explicit “BC/AD” phrases • rules without “BC/AD” phrases Normalization Strategies •calculations for relative and underspecified expressions •disambiguation of 2-digit years •expressions without “BC/AD” phrases ∗preliminary normalized to AD dates ∗ if explicit BC dates in ...

This paper reports research on temporal expressions. The analyzed phrases include a common temporal expression for a period of years reinforced by an adverb of time. We found that some of those phrases are age-related expressions. We analyzed samples obtained from the Internet for Spanish and French to determine appropriate annotations for marking up text and possible translations. We present t...