Background: Electronic Patient Records (EPRs) contain vast amounts of information in the form of texts, such as letters sent from a hospital to the patient’s local doctor (GP). The ability to extract data reliably from these texts would yield advances both in medical research and in individual patient care. In developing effective extraction methods, a crucial step is to create corpora that ali...

Algebraic methods for image reconstruction provide good solutions even if only few projections are available. However, they can create noisy images if the number of iterations or the computational time is limited. In this paper, we show how to decrease the effect of noise by using median filters during the iterations. We present an extensive study by applying filters of different sizes and in v...

Both sustainability and education are challenging process-oriented objectives. When the aim is to combine both notions, as in Higher Education in Sustainability (HES), it is indispensable to first establish a common ground between them. In this paper, we characterise this common ground in terms of four aspects: future orientation, normativity, global perspective, and theory engaged in practice....

The aim of the Nordic SYMBERED project funded by NUH (the Nordic Development Centre for Rehabilitation Technology) is to develop a user friendly editing tool that makes use of concept coding to produce web pages with flexible graphical symbol support targeted towards people with Augmentative and Alternative Communication (AAC) needs. Documents produced with the editing tool will be in XML/XHTML...

Background. With the variety of language norms in Ukrainian, school faces a challenging task teaching students how to master effective text creation. The skill is built when schoolchildren are already aware motives actions and operations they carry out with text: comprehension, oral written production, transformation, editing. However, curriculum Ukrainian envisages editing as an additional act...

On a logically structured document, such as a formal proof, pieces of information are related by various kinds of constraint. Computing-as-editing paradigm (CAEP) was previously proposed as a principle for designing environments for editing such documents. In this paradigm, the process of editing a document is considered to include setting and solving constraints, and constraint solving is cons...

This paper describes the Post-Editor Z system submitted to the L2 writing assistant task in SemEval-2014. The aim of task is to build a translation assistance system to translate untranslated sentence fragments. This is not unlike the task of post-editing where human translators improve machine-generated translations. Post-Editor Z emulates the manual process of post-editing by (i) crawling and...

We address the problem of using hand-drawn sketch to edit facial identity, such as enlarging the shape or modifying the position of eyes or mouth, in the whole video. This task is formulated as a 3D face model reconstruction and deformation problem. We first introduce a two-stage realtime 3D face model fitting schema to recover facial identity and expressions from the video. We recognize the us...

Brain circuit mapping requires digital reconstruction of neuronal morphologies in complicated networks. Despite recent advances in automatic algorithms, reconstruction of neuronal structures is still a bottleneck in circuit mapping due to a lack of appropriate software for both efficient reconstruction and user-friendly editing. Here we present a new software design based on the SWC format, a s...