A Task-based Comparison of Information Extraction Pattern Models (2009)
Mark A. Greenwood, Mark Stevenson
Several recent approaches to Information Extraction (IE) have used dependency trees as the basis for an extraction pattern representation. These approaches have used a variety of pattern models...
A Task-based Comparison of Information Extraction Pattern Models (2009)
Mark A. Greenwood, Mark Stevenson
Several recent approaches to Information Extraction (IE) have used dependency trees as the basis for an extraction pattern representation. These approaches have used a variety of pattern models...
Acquiring Sense Tagged Examples using Relevance Feedback (2009)
Mark Stevenson, Yikun Guo, Robert Gaizauskas
Supervised approaches to Word Sense Disambiguation (WSD) have been shown to outperform other approaches but are hampered by reliance on labeled training examples (the data acquisition bottleneck)....
A Semantic Similarity Approach to Paraphrase Detection (2009)
This paper presents a novel approach to the problem of paraphrase identification. Although paraphrases often make use of synonymous or near synonymous terms, many previous approaches have either...
Learning Expressive Models for Word Sense Disambiguation (2009)
Lucia Specia, Mark Stevenson, Maria Graças, V. Nunes
We present a novel approach to the word sense disambiguation problem which makes use of corpus-based evidence combined with background knowledge. Employing an inductive logic programming algorithm,...
Quantification of siRNA using competitive qPCR (2009)
Liu, Wei-li, Stevenson, Mark, Seymour, Leonard W., Fisher, Kerry D.
We have developed a PCR-based short interfering RNA (siRNA) quantification method based on competition between siRNA and a homologous DNA primer for annealing to template DNA, avoiding the...
Detecting Erroneous Sentences using Automatically Mined Sequential Patterns (2008)
Tom Mitchel, Lauri Karttunen, Diana Mccarthy, Gertjan Van Noort, Pascale Fung, Vera Demberg, ...
A Discriminative Language Model with
Disambiguation of biomedical text using diverse sources of information (2008)
Stevenson, Mark, Guo, Yikun, Gaizauskas, Robert, Martinez, David
Abstract Background Like text in other domains, biomedical documents contain a range of terms with more than one possible meaning. These ambiguities form a significant obstacle to the automatic...
On the Expressiveness of Information Extraction Patterns (2008)
Mark A. Greenwood, Mark Stevenson
Many recently reported machine learning approaches to the acquisition of information extraction (IE) patterns have used dependency trees as the basis for their pattern representations (Yangarber et...
EC project officer Kimmo Rossi (2008)
Fabio Ciravegna, Claudio Giuliano, Alberto Lavelli, Lorenza Romano, Mark Stevenson
This deliverable defines the evaluation strategies for the Information Extraction tools that are under development within the Dot.Kom project. Version 1 Number of pages 11
� Information Retrieval, � Machine Translation, etc. � WSD in Machine Translation (MT): (2008)
� Translation disambiguation: choice for one translation when the target language has several options. � One of the main challenges; � Examples (English-Portuguese): � take = tomar (carry...
� Conflicting results on the usefulness of (2008)
� Translation disambiguation: lexical choice in the case of semantic ambiguity. � Examples (English-Portuguese): � take = tomar (carry out), levar (lead, direct, conduct, guide), aceitar...
� Conflicting results on the usefulness of (2008)
� Lexical choice in the case of semantic ambiguity.
Mark A. Greenwood, Mark Stevenson
This paper describes an Information Extraction system that can be used to identify articles containing protein-protein interactions. The approach relies on the automatic acquisition of dependency...
� Overview + Inductive Logic Programming; (2008)
� Creation of the sense tagged corpus; � Architecture + Knowledge sources; � Experiments on multilingual WSD; � Translation context sensitive WSD; � Experiments on monolingual WSD. �...
R. Vieira et al. (Eds.): PROPOR 2006, LNAI 3960, pp. 233 -- 237, 2006. (2008)
Lucia Specia, Gabriela Castelo, Branco Ribeiro, Mark Stevenson
It is generally agreed that the ultimate goal of research into Word Sense Disambiguation (WSD) is to provide a technology which can benefit applications; however, most of the work in this area has...
Identification Number, She Yorick Wilks, Roberta Catizone, Robin Collier, Mark Stevenson, Ancona Paola Velardi, ...
: Status of Abstract: Public Specification of Heursitics for Automatic Tuning Contributors: SHE: Yorick Wilks, Roberta Catizone, Robin Collier, Mark Stevenson ROME-TV: Roberto Basili, Maria-Teresa...
Large Vocabulary Word Sense Disambiguation (2007)
this paper) versus one that is applied to only a small trial selection of words (for example Schutze (1992) and Yarowsky (1995)). The latter researchers have obtained very high levels of success:...
and Wilks Implementing a Sense Tagger (2007)
Hamish Cunningham, Mark Stevenson, Yorick Wilks
We describe two systems: GATE (General Ar-chitecture for Text Engineering), an architec-ture to aid in the production and delivery of language engineering systems which signifi-cantly reduces...
Ex Sharp (chair, Nicoletta Calzolari, Sophia Ananiadou, Subgroup Coordinator, Nuria Bel, Maite Melero Nogues, ...
Ex Sharp (chair, Nicoletta Calzolari, Antonietta Alonge, Nuria Bel, Kalina Bontcheva, Pierrette Bouillon, ...
I Linguistic aspects of lexical semantics 7
University of Sheffield, (2007)
Mark Stevenson, Robert Gaizauskas
Lists of names are an important knowledge source for many systems which carry out named entity recognition. It is shown that augmenting hand-crafted lists with those derived from corpora can improve...
A Corpus-Based Approach to Deriving Lexical Mappings (2007)
This paper proposes a novel, corpusbased, method for producing mappings between lexical resources. Results from a preliminary experiment using part of speech tags suggests this is a promising area...
Proceedings of the LREC Workshop "Information Extraction meets Corpus Linguistics" (2007)
Athens Greece Improving, Mark Stevenson, Robert Gaizauskas
Lists of names are an important knowledge source for many systems which carry out named entity recognition. It is shown that augmenting hand-crafted lists with those derived from corpora can improve...
Abstract. One of the aims of EuroWordNet (EWN) was to provide a resource for Cross-Language Information Retrieval (CLIR). In this paper we present experiments which test the usefulness of EWN for...
ABSTRACT Requirements for Information Extraction for Knowledge Management (2007)
Fabio Ciravegna, John Domingue, Siegfried H, Alberto Lavelli, Steffen Staab, Mark Stevenson
Knowledge Management (KM) systems inherently suffer from the knowledge acquisition bottleneck- the difficulty of modeling and formalizing knowledge relevant for specific domains. A potential solution...
Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) systems are widely used by many of the top recruiters of computer science and business school graduates, providing significant business benefits when implemented...
Injury profiles of Indigenous and non-Indigenous people in New South Wales (2006)
Clapham, Kathleen, Stevenson, Mark, Lo, Sing Kai
Objectives: To compare the injury profiles of the Indigenous population in New South Wales with that of the non-Indigenous population.Design and setting: Descriptive analysis of NSW Health data...
Injury profiles of Indigenous and non-Indigenous people in New South Wales (2006)
Clapham, Kathleen, Stevenson, Mark, Lo, Sing Kai
Objectives: To compare the injury profiles of the Indigenous population in New South Wales with that of the non-Indigenous population.Design and setting: Descriptive analysis of NSW Health data...
Learning Information Extraction Patterns using WordNet (2006)
Mark Stevenson And, Mark Stevenson, Mark A. Greenwood
Information Extraction (IE) systems often use patterns to identify relevant information in text but these are difficult and time-consuming to generate manually. This paper presents a new approach to...
Improving Semi-Supervised Acquisition of Relation Extraction Patterns (2006)
Mark A. Greenwood, Mark Stevenson
This paper presents a novel approach to the semi-supervised learning of Information Extraction patterns. The method makes use of more complex patterns than previous approaches and determines their...
Multilingual versus Monolingual WSD (2006)
Lucia Specia Av, Lucia Specia, Mark Stevenson
Although it is generally agreed that Word Sense Disambiguation (WSD) is an application dependent task, the great majority of the efforts has aimed at the development of WSD systems without...
Comparing Information Extraction Pattern Models (2006)
Mark Stevenson, Mark A. Greenwood
Several recently reported techniques for the automatic acquisition of Information Extraction (IE) systems have used dependency trees as the basis of their extraction pattern representation. These...
M.: Translation Context Sensitive WSD (2006)
Lucia Specia, Maria Graças, Volpe Nunes, Mark Stevenson
While it is generally agreed that Word Sense Disambiguation (WSD) is an application-dependent task, the great majority of systems pursue application-independent approaches. We propose a strategy to...
Farrow, Paul J., Barrett, Lee B., Stevenson, Mark, Fisher, Kerry D., Finn, Jonathan, Spice, Rachel, ...
Non-viral vectors are promising vehicles for gene therapy but delivery of plasmid DNA to post-mitotic cells is challenging as nuclear entry is particularly inefficient. We have developed and...
Injury profiles of Indigenous and non-Indigenous people in New South Wales (2006)
Clapham, Kathleen, Stevenson, Mark, Lo, Sing Kai
Objectives: To compare the injury profiles of the Indigenous population in New South Wales with that of the non-Indigenous population.Design and setting: Descriptive analysis of NSW Health data...
Exploiting rules for word sense disambiguation in machine translation (2005)
Specia, Lucia, Stevenson, Mark
Esta comunicación describe la generación automática y la evaluación de conjuntos de reglas para la desambiguación del sentido de las palabras (DSP) en la traducción automática. El objetivo...
Exploiting rules for word sense disambiguation in machine translation (2005)
Specia, Lucia, Graças Vulpe Nunes, Maria Das, Stevenson, Mark
This paper describes the automatic generation and the evaluation of sets of rules for word sense disambiguation (WSD) in machine translation. The ultimate aim is to identify high-quality rules that...
Read, Martin L., Singh, Surjeet, Ahmed, Zubair, Stevenson, Mark, Briggs, Simon S., Oupicky, David, ...
Synthetic vectors based on reducible polycations consisting of histidine and polylysine residues (HIS RPCs) were evaluated for their ability to deliver nucleic acids. Initial experiments showed that...
Read, Martin L., Singh, Surjeet, Ahmed, Zubair, Stevenson, Mark, Briggs, Simon S., Oupicky, David, ...
Synthetic vectors based on reducible polycations consisting of histidine and polylysine residues (HIS RPCs) were evaluated for their ability to deliver nucleic acids. Initial experiments showed that...
Mining Rules for Word Sense Disambiguation (2005)
Lucia Specia Maria, Maria Gracas, Volpe Nunes, Mark Stevenson
This paper describes the automatic generation and the evaluation of sets of rules for word sense disambiguation (WSD) in machine translation. The ultimate aim is to identify high-quality rules that...
Lucia Specia, Maria Das Graças, Volpe Nunes, Mark Stevenson
We describe an approach to the automatic creation of a sense tagged corpus intended to train a word sense disambiguation (WSD) system for English-Portuguese machine translation. The approach uses...
Exploiting Rules for Word Sense Disambiguation in Machine (2005)
Translation Lucia Specia, Lucia Specia, Maria Graças, V. Nunes, Mark Stevenson
This paper describes the automatic generation and the evaluation of sets of rules for word sense disambiguation (WSD) in machine translation. The ultimate aim is to identify high-quality rules that...
Automatically Acquiring a Linguistically Motivated Genic Interaction Extraction System (2005)
Mark A. Greenwood, Mark Stevenson, Yikun Guo, Henk Harkema, Angus Roberts
This paper describes an Information Extraction (IE) system to identify genic interactions in text. The approach relies on the automatic acquisition of patterns which can be used to identify these...
Read, Martin L., Singh, Surjeet, Ahmed, Zubair, Stevenson, Mark, Briggs, Simon S., Oupicky, David, ...
Synthetic vectors based on reducible polycations consisting of histidine and polylysine residues (HIS RPCs) were evaluated for their ability to deliver nucleic acids. Initial experiments showed that...
McManus, Alexandra, Stevenson, Mark, Finch, C., Elliott, B., Hamer, P., Lower, Anthony, ...
This paper identifies the risk and protective factors for injury in non-elite Australian Football. Five hundred and thirty five non-elite Australian footballers completed a baseline questionnaire at...
McManus, Alexandra, Stevenson, Mark, Finch, C., Elliott, B., Hamer, P., Lower, Anthony, ...
This paper identifies the risk and protective factors for injury in non-elite Australian Football. Five hundred and thirty five non-elite Australian footballers completed a baseline questionnaire at...
Diario de un psicópata = The Last Horror Movie (2003)
Richards, Julian (realización), Handel, James (guión), St. John Smith, Chris (fotografía), Wehlisch, Claus (montaje), Lambros, Simon (música), Howarth, Kevin (actuación), ...
xiii+175 pages Paperback (2003)
Paul Buitelaar, Mark Stevenson
A central aspect of natural language processing (NLP) systems is the analysis of word meaning in context. As humans we are faced with this problem every time we travel to any country of which we do...
Thomas, Claudia, Stevenson, Mark, Riley, Thomas V.
A systematic review of studies that investigated the association of antibiotics with hospital-acquired Clostridium difficile-associated diarrhoea (CDAD) was undertaken to summarize the strength of...
Thomas, Claudia, Stevenson, Mark, Riley, Thomas V.
A systematic review of studies that investigated the association of antibiotics with hospital-acquired Clostridium difficile-associated diarrhoea (CDAD) was undertaken to summarize the strength of...
Thomas, Claudia, Stevenson, Mark, Riley, Thomas V.
A systematic review of studies that investigated the association of antibiotics with hospital-acquired Clostridium difficile-associated diarrhoea (CDAD) was undertaken to summarize the strength of...
Section 91(24) and Canada's Legislative Jurisdiction with Respect to the Métis (2002)
Section 91 (24) of the Constitution Act of 1867 provides that the federal government has the legislative jurisdiction over “Indians and lands reserved for the Indians.” However, the Federal...
A Tale of an infatuated woman (2002)
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The reuters corpus volume 1 - from yesterday’s news to tomorrow’s language resources (2002)
Tony Rose, Mark Stevenson, Miles Whitehead
Reuters, the global information, news and technology group, has for the first time made available free of charge, large quantities of archived Reuters news stories for use by research communities...
The Interaction of Knowledge Sources in Word Sense Disambiguation (2001)
LOCATION N (= Non-movable solid) DATE T (= Abstract) TIME T (= Abstract) MONEY T (= Abstract) PERCENT T (= Abstract) UNKNOWN Z (= No semantic restriction) Any use of preferences for sense selection...
The interaction of knowledge sources in word sense disambiguation (2001)
Word sense disambiguation (WSD) is a computational linguistics task likely to benefit from the tradition of combining different knowledge sources in artificial intelligence research. An important...
The Interaction of Knowledge Sources for Word Sense Disambiguation (2001)
Word sense disambiguation (WSD) is a computational linguistics task likely to benefit from the tradition of combining different knowledge sources in artificial in telligence research. An important...
Community participation in road safety: barriers and enablers (2001)
Howat, Peter, Cross, Donna, Hall, Marg, Iredell, Helena, Stevenson, Mark, Gibbs, Susie, ...
A Survey of Uses of GATE (2000)
Maynard, D., Cunningham, H., Bontcheva, K., Catizone, R., Demetriou, George, Gaizauskas, Robert, ...
Experiments on sentence boundary detection (2000)
Mark Stevenson, Robert Gaizauskas
This paper explores the problem of identifying sen-tence boundaries in the transcriptions produced by automatic speech recognition systems. An experi-ment which determines the level of human...
Using corpus-derived named lists for named entity recognition (2000)
Mark Stevenson, Robert Gaizauskas
This paper describes experiments to establish the performance of a named entity recognition system which builds categorized lists of names from manu-ally annotated training data. Names in text are...
Using corpus-derived named lists for named entity recognition (2000)
Mark Stevenson, Robert Gaizauskas
This paper describes experiments to establish the performance of a named entity recognition system which builds categorized lists of names from manually annotated training data. Names in text are...
Experiments on Sentence Boundary Detection (2000)
Mark Stevenson, Robert Gaizauskas
This paper explores the problem of identifying sentence boundaries in the transcriptions produced by automatic speech recognition systems. An experiment which determines the level of human...
Using Corpus-derived Name Lists for Named Entity Recognition (2000)
Mark Stevenson, Robert Gaizauskas
This paper describes experiments to establish the performance of a named entity recognition system which naively builds categorized lists of names from manually annotated training data and then...
Experiments on Sentence Boundary Detection (2000)
Mark Stevenson, Robert Gaizauskas
This paper explores the problem of identifying sentence boundaries in the transcriptions produced by automatic speech recognition systems. An experiment which determines the level of human...
Using Corpus-derived Name Lists for Named Entity Recognition (2000)
Mark Stevenson, Robert Gaizauskas
This paper describes experiments to establish the performance of a named entity recognition system which builds categorized lists of names from manually annotated training data. Names in text are...
The SPRACH/LaSIE system for named entity identification in broadcast news. (1999)
Renals, Steve, Gotoh, Yoshihiko, Gaizauskas, Robert, Stevenson, Mark
We have developed two conceptually different systems that are able to identify named entities from spoken audio. One (referred to as SPRACH-S) has a stochastic finite state machine structure for use...
The SPRACH/LaSIE system for named entity identification in broadcast news. (1999)
Renals, Steve, Gotoh, Yoshihiko, Gaizauskas, Robert, Stevenson, Mark
We have developed two conceptually different systems that are able to identify named entities from spoken audio. One (referred to as SPRACH-S) has a stochastic finite state machine structure for use...
Baseline IE-NE experiments using the SPRACH/LaSIE system (1999)
Steve Renals, Yoshihiko Gotoh, Robert Gaizauskas, Mark Stevenson
We have developed two conceptually different systems that are able to identify named entities from spoken audio. One (referred to as SPRACH-S) has a stochastic finite state machine structure for use...
Baseline IE-NE experiments using the SPRACH/LaSIE system (1999)
Steve Renals, Yoshihiko Gotoh, Robert Gaizauskas, Mark Stevenson
We have developed two conceptually different systems that are able to identify named entities from spoken audio. One (referred to as SPRACH-S) has a stochastic finite state machine structure for use...
Baseline IE-NE Experiments Using the Sprach/LaSIE System (1999)
Steve Renals, Yoshihiko Gotoh, Robert Gaizauskas, Mark Stevenson
We have developed two conceptually different systems that are able to identify named entities from spoken audio. One (referred to as SPRACH-S) has a stochastic finite state machine structure for use...
Baseline Ie-Ne Experiments Using The Sprach/lasie System (1999)
Steve Renals Yoshihiko, Yoshihiko Gotoh, Robert Gaizauskas, Mark Stevenson
We have developed two conceptually different systems that are able to identify named entities from spoken audio. One (referred to as SPRACH-S) has a stochastic finite state machine structure for use...
Combining Weak Knowledge Sources for Sense Disambiguation (1999)
There has been a tradition of combining different knowledge sources in Artificial Intelligence research. We apply this methodology to word sense disambiguation (WSD), a long-standing problem in...
Baseline IE-NE experiments using the SPRACH/LaSIE system (1999)
Steve Renals, Yoshihiko Gotoh, Robert Gaizauskas, Mark Stevenson
We have developed two conceptually different systems that are able to identify named entities from spoken audio. One (referred to as SPRACH-S) has a stochastic finite state machine structure for use...
Word Sense Disambiguation using Optimised Combinations of Knowledge Sources (1998)
Wilks, Yorick, Stevenson, Mark
Word sense disambiguation algorithms, with few exceptions, have made use of only one lexical knowledge source. We describe a system which performs unrestricted word sense disambiguation (on all...
Implementing a Sense Tagger in General Architecture for Text Engineering (1998)
Hamish Cunningham, Mark Stevenson, Yorick Wilks
We describe two systems: GATE (General Architecture for Text Engineering), an architecture to aid in the production and delivery of language engineering systems which significantly reduces...
An empirical approach to Lexical Tuning (1998)
Roberto Basili, Roberta Catizone, Maria Teresa Pazienza, Mark Stevenson, Paola Velardi, Michele Vindigni, ...
. NLP systems crucially depend on the knowledge structures devoted to describing and representing word senses. Although automatic Word Sense Disambiguation (WSD) is now an established task within...
Implementing a Sense Tagger in a General Architecture for Text Engineering (1998)
Hamish Cunningham, Mark Stevenson, Yorick Wilks
We describe two systems: GATE (General Architecture for Text Engineering), an architecture to aid in the production and delivery of language engineering systems which significantly reduces...
Sense Tagging and Language Engineering (1998)
Mark Stevenson, Hamish Cunningham, Yorick Wilks
. Language engineering is a new, practical, branch of NLP and Computational Linguistics. We describe two language engineering systems: GATE (General Architecture for Text Engineering), an...
Word Sense Disambiguation using Optimised Combinations of Knowledge Sources (1998)
Word sense disambiguation algorithms, with few exceptions, have made use of only one lexical knowledge source. We describe a system which performs word sense disambiguation on all content words in...
Extracting Syntactic Relations using Heuristics (1998)
. In language processing it is not always necessary to fully parse a text in order to extract the syntactic information needed. We present a shallow parser which extracts a small number of...
Extracting Syntactic Relations using Heuristics (1998)
. In language processing it is not always necessary to fully parse a text in order to extract the syntactic information needed. We present a shallow parser which extracts a small number of...
Sense Tagging: Semantic Tagging with a Lexicon (1997)
Wilks, Yorick, Stevenson, Mark
Sense tagging, the automatic assignment of the appropriate sense from some lexicon to each of the words in a text, is a specialised instance of the general problem of semantic tagging by category or...
Sense tagging: Semantic tagging with a lexicon (1997)
Sense tagging, the automatic assignment of the appropriate sense from some lexicon to each of the words in a text, is a specialised instance of the general problem of semantic tagging by category or...
Combining Independent Knowledge Sources for Word Sense Disambiguation (1997)
Sense tagging, the automatic assignment of the appropriate sense from some lexicon to each of the words in a text, is a specialised instance of the general problem of word sense disambiguation. We...
The Grammar of Sense: Using part-of-speech tags as a first step in semantic disambiguation (1997)
This paper describes two experiments: one exploring the amount of information relevant to sense disambiguation contained in the part-of-speech field of entries in a Machine Readable Dictionary (MRD);...
Extracting Case relations from Corpora (1997)
Roberto Basili, Maria-teresa Pazienza, Paola Velardi, Roberta Catizone, Robin Collier, Mark Stevenson, ...
Description of a system for the automatic acquisition of verbal case frames from corpora. The key target is to acquire domain-specific relations rather than the standard relationships found in...
Sense Tagging: Semantic Tagging with a Lexicon (1997)
Sense tagging, the automatic assignment of the appropriate sense from some lexicon to each of the words in a text, is a specialised instance of the general problem of semantic tagging by category or...
Sense Tagging: Semantic Tagging with a Lexicon (1997)
Sense tagging, the automatic assignment of the appropriate sense from some lexicon to each of the words in a text, is a specialised instance of the general problem of semantic tagging by category or...
The Grammar of Sense: Is word-sense tagging much more than part-of-speech tagging? (1996)
Wilks, Yorick, Stevenson, Mark
This squib claims that Large-scale Automatic Sense Tagging of text (LAST) can be done at a high-level of accuracy and with far less complexity and computational effort than has been believed until...
Methods for Lexical Items Modification/Creation (1996)
The ECRAN Consortium (ECRAN), Yorick Wilks, Mark Stevenson, Rob Collier, Paola Velardi
Lexicon tuning is the process by which lexical entries in a general purpose lexicon are adapted to a given language domain. Lexicon tuning is performed by increasing-decreasing the expectation of the...
Mach-US: UNIX On Generic OS Object Servers (1995)
J. Mark, Mark Stevenson, P. Julin
This paper examines the Mach-US operating system, its unique architecture, and the lessons demonstrated through its implementation. Mach-US is an object-oriented multi-server OS which runs on the...
Client-Server Interactions in Multi-Server Operating Systems: The Mach-US Approach (1994)
J. Mark, Mark Stevenson, P. Julin
This paper describes requirements placed upon client-server interaction in a multi-server operating system and how to answer those requirements. Addressed are the problems of binding maintenance in...
Language and nature--[microform] :--a consideration of words and worlds. (1992)
University Microfilms order no. UMI00359305.
The treatment of prints : a history / (1988)
Thesis (Certificate in Conservation)--Fogg Art Museum. Center for Conservation and Technical Studies, 1988.
Read, Martin L., Singh, Surjeet, Ahmed, Zubair, Stevenson, Mark, Briggs, Simon S., Oupicky, David, ...
Synthetic vectors based on reducible polycations consisting of histidine and polylysine residues (HIS RPCs) were evaluated for their ability to deliver nucleic acids. Initial experiments showed that...
Farrow, Paul J., Barrett, Lee B., Stevenson, Mark, Fisher, Kerry D., Finn, Jonathan, Spice, Rachel, ...
Non-viral vectors are promising vehicles for gene therapy but delivery of plasmid DNA to post-mitotic cells is challenging as nuclear entry is particularly inefficient. We have developed and...
Read, Martin L., Singh, Surjeet, Ahmed, Zubair, Stevenson, Mark, Briggs, Simon S., Oupicky, David, ...
Synthetic vectors based on reducible polycations consisting of histidine and polylysine residues (HIS RPCs) were evaluated for their ability to deliver nucleic acids. Initial experiments showed that...
Farrow, Paul J., Barrett, Lee B., Stevenson, Mark, Fisher, Kerry D., Finn, Jonathan, Spice, Rachel, ...
Non-viral vectors are promising vehicles for gene therapy but delivery of plasmid DNA to post-mitotic cells is challenging as nuclear entry is particularly inefficient. We have developed and...
Gow, Hamish, Stevenson, Mark, Westgren, Randall, Sonka, Steven
The structure of the New Zealand merino industry has been through a period of rapid organizational change and marketing innovation over the past decade. This has seen it move away from a publicly...
Disambiguation of biomedical text using diverse sources of information
Stevenson, Mark, Guo, Yikun, Gaizauskas, Robert, Martinez, David
Quantification of siRNA using competitive qPCR
Liu, Wei-li, Stevenson, Mark, Seymour, Leonard W., Fisher, Kerry D.
We have developed a PCR-based short interfering RNA (siRNA) quantification method based on competition between siRNA and a homologous DNA primer for annealing to template DNA, avoiding the...
Establishment of a positive-readout reporter system for siRNAs
Liu, Wei-li, Owen, Douglas P, Fisher, Kerry D, Seymour, Leonard W, Stevenson, Mark
The use of small interfering RNA molecules for therapeutic applications requires development of improved delivery systems, a process that would be facilitated by a non-invasive positive-readout mouse...