A Dutch medical language processor

International Journal of Bio-Medical Computing

Volumn 41, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 181-205

  Spyns, Peter ^a   De Moor, Georges ^a  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Computational linguistics; Medical language processing

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL GRAMMARS; COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS; DATA STRUCTURES; HOSPITAL DATA PROCESSING; KNOWLEDGE REPRESENTATION; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS; QUERY LANGUAGES; RELATIONAL DATABASE SYSTEMS;

ANNOTATED PARSE TREE; DUTCH MEDICAL LANGUAGE PROCESSOR; ELECTRONIC MEDICAL RECORD; HEAD PHRASE STRUCTURE GRAMMAR; PATIENT DISCHARGE SUMMARY; STRUCTURED QUERY LANGUAGE;

MEDICAL COMPUTING;

ARTICLE; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; LANGUAGE; MEDICAL INFORMATION; MEDICAL RECORD; NETHERLANDS; NOMENCLATURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 0030174323     PISSN: 00207101     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0020-7101(96)01198-1     Document Type: Article

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