Background and Objective: Yes/no question answering (QA) in open-domain is a longstanding challenge widely studied over the last decades. However, it still requires further efforts in the biomedical domain. Yes/no QA aims at answering yes/no questions, which are seeking for a clear “yes” or...

Ontologies are constructed to extract meaningful information from data sources. Constructing ontologies aim at capturing domain knowledge that gives a commonly agreed understanding of a domain, which may be reused, shared, among applications and groups. To ease the process of building ontologies...

This article re-defines traditional requirement engineering processes by performing exhaustive requirement gathering through an interactive and collaborative communication, where stakeholders are equally involved in capturing and finalizing requirements in the scope of a project. It strongly...

User's profiles play an important role when information systems try to meet their needs. This work presents a novel approach to build user profiles. It is based on information extraction techniques and proceeds by iterative steps. The use of different statistic metrics, Natural Language...

Twitter is one of the most popular micro-blogging platform for people to express their political views in and around the elections. Hence during pre-elections twitter becomes a rich resource of data to understand the changing tenor of political leaders with time. During this time, when views,...

Teaching files are widely used by radiologists in the diagnostic process and for student education. Most hospitals maintain an active collection of teaching files for internal purposes, but many teaching files are also publicly available online, some linked to secondary sources. However, public...

Semantic analysis is the process of extracting meaning of the sentence, from a given language. From the perspective of computer processing, challenge lies in making computer understand the meaning of the given sentence. Understandability depends upon the grammar, syntactic and semantic...

India is a land of 122 languages and numerous dialects. Lack of competent lexical resources for Indian languages is a ubiquitous fact, which negatively affects the development of tools for NLP of Indian languages. Recent advancements like the Indo WordNet project has significantly contributed to...

This article presents SmartSOP, a framework for IT support of clinical laboratory standards. Adoption of laboratory standards and good practices is critical for ensuring high-quality health services, but clinical labs are dealing with many challenges in following lab standards. The proposed IT...

With the advances in the computer science field, various new data science techniques have been emerged. Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) is one of the Deep Learning techniques which have captured lots of attention as far as real world applications are considered. It is nothing but the...