To the Editor: Rogier M. Bertina has written a clear, timely, and authoritative review of factor V Leiden and other coagulation factor mutations affecting thrombotic risk (1). I was confused by the fact that the sum of genetic defects in inherited thrombophilia plus the cases with unknown cause add up to 109.7% (Table 1 of reference 1). This could occur due to multiple defects in individual pat...

In this paper we describe the possibility to carry out cla-riication dialogues in the framework of the face-to-face translation system verbmobil. We focus on a special subtype of clariication dialogues which occur when the system has insuucient information to continue processing. The clariication dialogues currently incorporated in our system concern three aspects: (i) phonological ambiguities ...

We attempt to show that a classical concern of formal semantics, quantification, interacts in an interesting way with dialogue strategies when viewed from the perspective of our approach to semantics using Type Theory with Records (TTR). TTR analyzes semantic content in terms of structured semantic objects containing subcomponents and we argue that these components influence what a dialogue par...

in life and beliefs should be considered at par with the functional variables. Thus how a patient judges the outcome and how the outcomes influences the health related quality of life is as important as clinician's judgement of prognosis. Hence considering a high prevalence (25%) of depression amongst the cancer patients we feel the presence of a psychiatrist, psychoanalyst alongwith the surgeo...

We model human responses to speech recognition errors from a corpus of human clarification strategies. We employ learning techniques to study 1) the decision to either stop and ask a clarification question or to continue the dialogue without clarification, and 2) the decision to ask a targeted clarification question or a more generic question. Targeted clarification questions focus specifically...

In this paper, the effects of prosodic features on the interpretation of elliptical clarification requests in dialogue are studied. An experiment is presented where subjects were asked to listen to short human-computer dialogue fragments in Swedish, where a synthetic voice was making an elliptical clarification after a user turn. The prosodic features of the synthetic voice were systematically ...

The ability to request clarification of utterances is a vital part of the communicative process. In this paper we discuss the range of possible forms for clarification requests, together with the range of readings they can convey. We present the results of corpus analysis which show a correlation between certain forms and possible readings, together with some indication of maximum likely distan...

Primary care is the central pillar of health care. The increasingly complex health needs of the population and individual patients in a changing society can only be met by promoting interprofessional collaboration (IpC) within primary care teams. The aim of this Position Paper of the European Forum for Primary Care (EFPC) is to analyse how to improve IpC within primary care teams. Clarificatio...