Carcinoma of the esophagus is an aggressive and lethal malignancy with an increasing incidence worldwide.Incidence rates vary internationally,with the highest rates found in Southern and Eastern Africa and Eastern Asi...Carcinoma of the esophagus is an aggressive and lethal malignancy with an increasing incidence worldwide.Incidence rates vary internationally,with the highest rates found in Southern and Eastern Africa and Eastern Asia,and the lowest in Western and Middle Africa and Central America.Patients with locally advanced disease face a poor prognosis,with 5-year survival rates ranging from 15%-34%.Recent clinical trials have evaluated different strategies for management of locoregional cancer;however,because of stage migration and changes in disease epidemiology,applying these trials to clinical practice has become a daunting task.We searched Medline and conference abstracts for randomized studies published in the last 3 decades.We restricted our search to articles published in English.Neoadjuvant chemoradiotherapy followed by surgical resection is an accepted standard of care in the United States.Esophagectomy remains an essential component of treatment and can lead to improved overall survival,especially when performed at high volume institutions.The role of adjuvant chemotherapy following curative resection is still unclear.External beam radiation therapy alone is considered palliative and is typically reserved for patients with a poor performance status.展开更多
Compared with the traditional method of adding sentences to get summary in multi-document summarization,a two-stage sentence selection approach based on deleting sentences in acandidate sentence set to generate summar...Compared with the traditional method of adding sentences to get summary in multi-document summarization,a two-stage sentence selection approach based on deleting sentences in acandidate sentence set to generate summary is proposed,which has two stages,the acquisition of acandidate sentence set and the optimum selection of sentence.At the first stage,the candidate sentenceset is obtained by redundancy-based sentence selection approach.At the second stage,optimum se-lection of sentences is proposed to delete sentences in the candidate sentence set according to itscontribution to the whole set until getting the appointed summary length.With a test corpus,theROUGE value of summaries gotten by the proposed approach proves its validity,compared with thetraditional method of sentence selection.The influence of the token chosen in the two-stage sentenceselection approach on the quality of the generated summaries is analyzed.展开更多
文摘Carcinoma of the esophagus is an aggressive and lethal malignancy with an increasing incidence worldwide.Incidence rates vary internationally,with the highest rates found in Southern and Eastern Africa and Eastern Asia,and the lowest in Western and Middle Africa and Central America.Patients with locally advanced disease face a poor prognosis,with 5-year survival rates ranging from 15%-34%.Recent clinical trials have evaluated different strategies for management of locoregional cancer;however,because of stage migration and changes in disease epidemiology,applying these trials to clinical practice has become a daunting task.We searched Medline and conference abstracts for randomized studies published in the last 3 decades.We restricted our search to articles published in English.Neoadjuvant chemoradiotherapy followed by surgical resection is an accepted standard of care in the United States.Esophagectomy remains an essential component of treatment and can lead to improved overall survival,especially when performed at high volume institutions.The role of adjuvant chemotherapy following curative resection is still unclear.External beam radiation therapy alone is considered palliative and is typically reserved for patients with a poor performance status.
基金the National Natural Science Foundation of China(No.60575041)the High Technology Researchand Development Program of China(No.2006AA01Z150).
文摘Compared with the traditional method of adding sentences to get summary in multi-document summarization,a two-stage sentence selection approach based on deleting sentences in acandidate sentence set to generate summary is proposed,which has two stages,the acquisition of acandidate sentence set and the optimum selection of sentence.At the first stage,the candidate sentenceset is obtained by redundancy-based sentence selection approach.At the second stage,optimum se-lection of sentences is proposed to delete sentences in the candidate sentence set according to itscontribution to the whole set until getting the appointed summary length.With a test corpus,theROUGE value of summaries gotten by the proposed approach proves its validity,compared with thetraditional method of sentence selection.The influence of the token chosen in the two-stage sentenceselection approach on the quality of the generated summaries is analyzed.