An experiment comparing lexical and statistical methods for extracting MeSH terms from clinical free text

Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 62-75

  Cooper, Gregory F ^a   Miller, Randolph A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXPERIMENT; HYBRID; MEDICAL INFORMATION; SEMANTICS; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 0031958629     PISSN: 10675027     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/jamia.1998.0050062     Document Type: Article

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