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We present an end to end Question and Answering system to help the clinical practitioners in a cardiovascular healthcare environment. We introduce our proposed ontology framework, Ontology for General Clinical Practice, that we developed enhancing the currently available state-of-the-art ontologies for medical science and for the cardiovascular specialty, extending upon the OBO Foundry principles. It's shown the scientific and philosophical reasons of its present dual structure with a deeply expressive (SHOIN) terminological base (TBox) and a highly computable (EL++) assertions knowledge base (ABox). The knowledge base is automatically populated by means of a tutored acquisition from clinical reports using Controlled Natural Language rendering an ontology driven question answering system with high recall, precision and F-Measure that competes in its specific sub-domain with the more advanced current NLP systems developed in general for the healthcare domain. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Education policy regarding the immigrant school population is of upmost importance for current scientific research in social sciences. Digital resources and assessment instruments are challenges in education and psychology research, demanding knowledge from school community to address specific traits of learning and academic achievement. The education of future generation should be conceived based on multicultural idea of existing different cognitive profiles that have different self-regulations in learning environments as language acquisition development process. Immigrant school population is frequently neglected by school management and become emergent the development of open educational resources, validated tools and digital materials. Method: 106 immigrant students from public schools, aged between 8 and 17 years old, learning Portuguese as second language, with heterogeneous profiles, in Lisbon district, from several levels of education. The main goal is to determine learner's cognitive profiles trough the analysis from three tasks: verbal analogy, cognates identification, and idiomatic utterances comprehension. Percentile analysis with SPSS program will identify which common performances we can find between different home language speakers answering to those evaluation tasks. Preliminary results will be discussed regarding three hypotheses about second language learners' linguistic behaviors in cognates, metaphor language and verbal reasoning according to three variables: age, home language and exposure to second language. The variation of these predictors might have influence to explain cognitive and linguistic profiles. Additionally will be evaluated the reliability and difficulty of each task to provide a more psychometric sound measure than traditional other tools of assessment in national second language area. We believe that accurate evaluation tests can produce new changes in learning environments of linguistic minorities. Findings will demonstrate specificities of new understanding about different speaking proficiency levels, rationales about predictive factors, and scoring issues. Some of these new insights could be extended to the general investigation of proficiency and cognitive decoding skills in second language research, mainly for European languages context. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]