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Hairstyle is one of the most important features people use to characterize one’s appearance. Whether a hairstyle is suitable or not is said to be closely related to one’s facial shape. This paper proposes a new technique for automatically retrieving a suitable hairstyle from a collection of hairstyle examples through learning the relationship between facial shapes and suitable hairstyles. A met...

Notwithstanding the fact that many British Physicians have recourse to "suggestion" in the treatment of functional disorder, yet few are openly willing to admit that psychotherapy has played a part in their methods. Such reticence is doubtless largely the outcome of a very natural dread of being placed in the same category with quacks and imposters (styling themselves spiritualists), who bring ...

Spelling correction in a large collection of clinical notes is a relatively lesser explored research area and serious problem as typically 30% of tokens are unknown. In this paper we explore techniques to devise a spelling suggestion generator for clinical data with an emphasis on the accuracy of the first suggestion. We use a combination of a rule-based suggestion generation system and a conte...