BACKGROUND Opinions are frequently expressed in the medical literature whether patients should be addressed by their first or last names, but few supportive data are available. Our objective was to determine the preferences of a sample of ambulatory patients to guide physicians and other professionals in addressing their patients appropriately. METHODS Three hundred seventy-five patients in a...

This paper proposes a novel approach to extract meaningful content information from video by collaborative integration of image understanding and natural language processing. As an actual example, we developed a system that associates faces and names in videos, called Name-It, which is given news videos as a knowledge source, then automatically extracts face and name association as content info...

A semantic le system is an information storage system that provides exible associative access to the system's contents by automatically extracting attributes from les with le type speci c transducers. Associative access is provided by a conservative extension to existing tree-structured le system protocols, and by protocols that are designed speci cally for content based access. Compatiblity wi...

Users on Twitter are commonly identified by their profile names. These names are used when directly addressing users on Twitter, are part of their profile page URLs, and can become a trademark for popular accounts, with people referring to celebrities by their real name and their profile name, interchangeably. Twitter, however, has chosen to not permanently link profile names to their correspon...

The results of this project have multiple applications. Determining optimal preview clips can help potential customers select music before purchasing it and also allow users to quickly scan through the pieces of a playlist to ensure continuity. Tagging music with its representative clip allows computers to present music search results to users in a more native, informative format than just word...