scholarly journals COVID-19 recommender system based on an annotated multilingual corpus

2021 ◽  
Vol 19 (3) ◽  
pp. e24
Author(s):  
Márcia Barros ◽  
Pedro Ruas ◽  
Diana Sousa ◽  
Ali Haider Bangash ◽  
Francisco M. Couto
Keyword(s):  
Text Mining ◽  
Recommender System ◽  
Related Literature ◽  
Related Research ◽  
Parallel Corpus ◽  
Recent Advances ◽  
Incoming Information ◽  
Multilingual Corpus

Tracking the most recent advances in Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19)‒related research is essential, given the disease's novelty and its impact on society. However, with the publication pace speeding up, researchers and clinicians require automatic approaches to keep up with the incoming information regarding this disease. A solution to this problem requires the development of text mining pipelines; the efficiency of which strongly depends on the availability of curated corpora. However, there is a lack of COVID-19‒related corpora, even more, if considering other languages besides English. This project's main contribution was the annotation of a multilingual parallel corpus and the generation of a recommendation dataset (EN-PT and EN-ES) regarding relevant entities, their relations, and recommendation, providing this resource to the community to improve the text mining research on COVID-19‒related literature. This work was developed during the 7th Biomedical Linked Annotation Hackathon (BLAH7).

scholarly journals Entertainment in Virtual Reality and Beyond

2021 ◽  
pp. 716-732
Author(s):  
Tilo Hartmann ◽  
Jesse Fox
Keyword(s):  
Virtual Reality ◽  
Conceptual Framework ◽  
Spatial Presence ◽  
Related Literature ◽  
Related Research ◽  
Media Channels

Recently, virtual reality (VR) has emerged, but a conceptual framework explicating potential foundational pillars of VR entertainment is still missing. The present chapter aims to fill this gap by introducing, based on a review of the related literature, such a conceptual framework. It proposes that the typical VR experience is characterized by the interaction of three core mechanisms or affordances (that, albeit in different constellations and to a different degree, also underlie other media channels), namely a profound sense of embodiment, spatial presence or a sense of physical co-location of other entities and events, and users’ cognitive distancing. It argues that these factors jointly affect the extent users experience VR as immediately self-relevant and consequential. By linking these three foundational pillars of the VR experience to users’ entertainment experience and related research on media entertainment, it derives five propositions about entertainment in VR (and other channels that support these affordances).

The Inherent Difficulties and Complexities of Voting Electronically

2015 ◽  
pp. 48-73
Author(s):  
Dimitrios Zissis ◽  
Dimitrios Lekkas
Keyword(s):  
State Of The Art ◽  
Electronic Voting ◽  
Legal Regulations ◽  
Related Literature ◽  
Recent Advances ◽  
Political Cultures

Countries worldwide have been conducting trials and holding pilots to evaluate the benefits and detriments of introducing electronic voting; while some have successfully implemented state of the art voting solutions, others have decided to abandon such attempts altogether. Across the field, one can see a multitude of different approaches, revealing the wide diversification of political cultures, legal regulations, social requirements, and contexts, within which this technology must be deployed. The approaches adopted can thus seem to be contradictory or indeed diametrically opposed. The purpose of this chapter is thus twofold. Firstly, it attempts to provide an introduction to the field of electronic voting while reviewing the most recent advances and related literature. Secondly, it attempts to evaluate under a perspicacious vision the level of maturity of the technology.

scholarly journals Recent Advances in the Processing and Properties of Alumina–CNT/SiC Nanocomposites

Nanomaterials ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 86 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ibrahim Momohjimoh ◽  
Mohamed Hussein ◽  
Nasser Al-Aqeeli
Keyword(s):  
Fracture Toughness ◽  
Characteristic Size ◽  
Research Trends ◽  
Alumina Matrix ◽  
Related Research ◽  
Conductive Materials ◽  
Mechanical Hardness ◽  
Recent Advances ◽  
Potential Applications ◽  
Thermal And Electrical Properties

An alumina-based nanocomposite is fabricated through the addition of secondary nanophase material to an alumina matrix to alter and tailor the properties of alumina. The addition to alumina of semi-conductive materials, such as silicon carbide (SiC), and high conductive materials, such as carbon nanotubes with a characteristic size in the nanometer range, can alter the mechanical strength, hardness, toughness, and electrical and thermal properties of alumina. This paper discusses recent advances in the synthesis of alumina–SiC and alumina-carbon nanotube (CNT) nanopowders and their consolidation using conventional and non-conventional techniques. Mechanical (hardness, fracture toughness and flexural strength) and functional (thermal and electrical) properties are discussed. The influence of the microstructure on the properties of alumina–SiC and alumina–CNT nanocomposites is discussed. Furthermore, potential applications and current related research trends are described.

Swedish gärna and German gern(e) and their English correspondences

2013 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
pp. 238-259
Author(s):  
Karin Aijmer ◽  
Bengt Altenberg
Keyword(s):  
Speech Acts ◽  
Parallel Corpora ◽  
Parallel Corpus ◽  
Contrastive Study ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Multilingual Corpus ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The Rich ◽  
Linguistic Phenomenon ◽  
Common Function

The Swedish adverb gärna, related to German gern(e), has no obvious equivalent in English. To explore this cross-linguistic phenomenon the English correspondences of gärna are examined on the basis of the English-Swedish Parallel Corpus, a bidirectional translation corpus. The study shows that gärna has a wide range of English correspondences (translations as well as sources), representing a variety of grammatical categories (verb, adjective, adverb, noun, etc). In addition, the English texts contain a large number of omissions and unidentifiable sources (zero). The most common function of gärna is to express willingness or readiness on the part of the subject, but in the absence of a volitional controller it can also indicate a habitual tendency and even convey implications such as reluctance. It is also used in speech acts expressing offers, promises and requests and in responses to such speech acts. To compare the Swedish adverb with its German cognate gern(e) a similar contrastive study of the English correspondences of this adverb was made on the basis of the Oslo Multilingual Corpus. The studies clearly demonstrate the rich multifunctionality of the two adverbs and the advantages of using bidirectional parallel corpora in contrastive research.

The Inherent Difficulties and Complexities of Voting Electronically

2014 ◽  
pp. 1-26 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dimitrios Zissis ◽  
Dimitrios Lekkas
Keyword(s):  
State Of The Art ◽  
Electronic Voting ◽  
Legal Regulations ◽  
Related Literature ◽  
Recent Advances ◽  
Political Cultures

Countries worldwide have been conducting trials and holding pilots to evaluate the benefits and detriments of introducing electronic voting; while some have successfully implemented state of the art voting solutions, others have decided to abandon such attempts altogether. Across the field, one can see a multitude of different approaches, revealing the wide diversification of political cultures, legal regulations, social requirements, and contexts, within which this technology must be deployed. The approaches adopted can thus seem to be contradictory or indeed diametrically opposed. The purpose of this chapter is thus twofold. Firstly, it attempts to provide an introduction to the field of electronic voting while reviewing the most recent advances and related literature. Secondly, it attempts to evaluate under a perspicacious vision the level of maturity of the technology.

scholarly journals Text mining of gene–phenotype associations reveals new phenotypic profiles of autism-associated genes

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Sijie Li ◽  
Ziqi Guo ◽  
Jacob B. Ioffe ◽  
Yunfei Hu ◽  
Yi Zhen ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Text Mining ◽  
Language Processing ◽  
Wide Spectrum ◽  
Diagnosis And Treatment ◽  
Limited Resources ◽  
Related Literature ◽  
Disease Mechanisms ◽  
Sentence Level ◽  
Rank And Select ◽  
New Literature

AbstractAutism is a spectrum disorder with wide variation in type and severity of symptoms. Understanding gene–phenotype associations is vital to unravel the disease mechanisms and advance its diagnosis and treatment. To date, several databases have stored a large portion of gene–phenotype associations which are mainly obtained from genetic experiments. However, a large proportion of gene–phenotype associations are still buried in the autism-related literature and there are limited resources to investigate autism-associated gene–phenotype associations. Given the abundance of the autism-related literature, we were thus motivated to develop Autism_genepheno, a text mining pipeline to identify sentence-level mentions of autism-associated genes and phenotypes in literature through natural language processing methods. We have generated a comprehensive database of gene–phenotype associations in the last five years’ autism-related literature that can be easily updated as new literature becomes available. We have evaluated our pipeline through several different approaches, and we are able to rank and select top autism-associated genes through their unique and wide spectrum of phenotypic profiles, which could provide a unique resource for the diagnosis and treatment of autism. The data resources and the Autism_genpheno pipeline are available at: https://github.com/maiziezhoulab/Autism_genepheno.

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