Trends and pitfalls with nomenclatures and classifications in medicine

International Journal of Medical Informatics

Volumn 52, Issue 1-3, 1998, Pages 141-148

  Lovis, Christian ^a  

^a GENEVA UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Classifications; Natural language processing; Nomenclatures

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS; HEALTH CARE; KNOWLEDGE REPRESENTATION; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS;

MEDICAL INFORMATICS; NOMENCLATURES;

MEDICAL COMPUTING;

CLASSIFICATION; CONFERENCE PAPER; INFORMATION PROCESSING; LANGUAGE; MEDICAL INFORMATION; NOMENCLATURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 0032191971     PISSN: 13865056     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1386-5056(98)80133-0     Document Type: Conference Paper

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