OBJECTIVE: A survey was performed in 5 European countries (France, Germany, Italy,
Portugal, and Spain) to estimate the prevalence of fibromyalgia (FM) in the general population. …

… Learning machines, on the other hand, will have to interact with the people who CARBONELL,
MICHALSKI AND MITCHELL 5 make use of them, and consequently the concepts and …

The wave function of a composite system is defined in relativity on a space–time surface. In
the explicitly covariant light-front dynamics, reviewed in the present article, the wave …

This paper presents a method for combining query-relevance with information-novelty in the
context of text retrieval and summarization. The Maximal Marginal Relevance (MMR) …

… Given a pair of positions i and j in the sequence, if i and j are from the same segment, we
use a segment encoding sij = s+ or otherwise sij = s−, where s+ and s− are learnable model …

… Ri−j for all pairs (i, j), whose cost is quadratic wrt the sequence length. However, noticing
that the value of i − j only ranges from zero to the sequence length, we show a simple …

Topic Detection and Tracking (TDT) is a DARPA-sponsored initiative to investigate the state
of the art in finding and following new events in a stream of broadcast news stories. The TDT …

… In Chapter 5, Carbonell examines the issue of learning from experience, a common phenomenon
among humans, but heretofore a nemesis to machines that could not transfer planning …

Background There is no proven specific pharmacological treatment for patients with the
acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS). The efficacy of corticosteroids in ARDS remains …

The main purpose of the research reported here is to show that a new and more powerful
type of computer-assisted instruction (CAI), based on extensive application of artificial-…