This study investigated the relationships of processing capacity and knowledge to memory measures that varied in retrieval difficulty and reliance on verbal knowledge in an adult life-span sample (N = 341). It was hypothesized that processing ability (speed and working memory) would have the strongest relationship to tasks requiring active retrieval and that knowledge (vocabulary ability) would...

purpose: the present study seeks to explore the effects of general language proficiency, text readability, and medical knowledge on comprehending medical texts. material & method: 63 medical students in the second year of their study were randomly selected from the english language classes. they answered 100 multiple-choice questions on grammar and vocabulary to establish the level of language ...

Integration of disparate biomedical terminologies is becoming increasingly important as links between biological science and clinical medicine grow. Mapping concepts in the Gene Ontology (GO) to the UMLS may help further this integration and allow for more efficient information exchange among researchers. Using a gold standard of GO term--UMLS concept mappings provided by the NCI, we examined t...

OBJECTIVE We explored automated concept-based indexing of unstructured figure captions to improve retrieval of images from radiology journals. DESIGN The MetaMap Transfer program (MMTx) was used to map the text of 84,846 figure captions from 9,004 peer-reviewed, English-language articles to concepts in three controlled vocabularies from the UMLS Metathesaurus, version 2006AA. Sampling procedu...

UNLABELLED We describe a model for assessment of lexical-semantic organization skills in American Sign Language (ASL) within the framework of dynamic vocabulary assessment and discuss the applicability and validity of the use of mediated learning experiences (MLE) with deaf signing children. Two elementary students (ages 7;6 and 8;4) completed a set of four vocabulary tasks and received two 30-...

The present study investigated interactions between cognitive processes and finger actions called "kusho," meaning "air-writing" in Japanese. Kanji-culture individuals often employ kusho behavior in which they move their fingers as a substitute for a pen to write mostly done when they are trying to recall the shape of a Kanji character or the spelling of an English word. To further examine the ...

This paper presents a Chinese word segmentation system for CIPS-SIGHAN 2010 Chinese language processing task. Firstly, based on Conditional Random Field (CRF) model, with local features and global features, the character-based tagging model is designed. Secondly, Hidden Markov Models (HMM) is used to revise the substrings with low marginal probability by CRF. Finally, confidence measure is used...