Discourse structures in medical reports - Watch out! The generation of referentially coherent and valid text knowledge bases in the MEDSYNDIKATE system

International Journal of Medical Informatics

Volumn 53, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 1-28

  Hahn, Udo ^a   Romacker, Martin ^a,b   Schulz, Stefan ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Description logics; Knowledge acquisition from texts; Knowledge representation; Natural language processing; Ontology and terminology; Pathology domain; Text understanding

Indexed keywords

KNOWLEDGE ACQUISITION; KNOWLEDGE BASED SYSTEMS; KNOWLEDGE REPRESENTATION; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS; TEXT PROCESSING;

EXPRESSIVE CONCEPTUAL REPRESENTATION SYSTEMS;

MEDICAL COMPUTING;

ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT; COMPUTER SYSTEM; LOGIC; MEDICAL LITERATURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; WRITING;

EID: 0032892080     PISSN: 13865056     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1386-5056(98)00091-4     Document Type: Article

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