Dependency parsing for medical language and concept representation

Artificial Intelligence in Medicine

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 77-86

  Steimann, Friedrich ^a  

^a LEIBNIZ UNIVERSITY HANNOVER   (Germany)

Author keywords

Conceptual graphs; Dependency grammar; Feature unification; Medical concept representation language; Natural language processing

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL GRAMMARS; GRAPH THEORY; KNOWLEDGE REPRESENTATION; PROLOG (PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE);

CONCEPTUAL GRAPHS; DEPENDENCY GRAMMARS; MEDICAL CONCEPT REPRESENTATION LANGUAGES;

NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS;

ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; INFORMATION SYSTEM; LANGUAGE; MEDICAL INFORMATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; LANGUAGE; MEDICAL INFORMATICS;

EID: 0031885762     PISSN: 09333657     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0933-3657(97)00041-9     Document Type: Article

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