How knowledge drives understanding - Matching medical ontologies with the needs of medical language processing

Artificial Intelligence in Medicine

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 25-51

  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; Natural language processing; Pathology domain; Text understanding

Indexed keywords

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

MEDICAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING; ONTOLOGY;

MEDICAL COMPUTING;

COMPUTER LANGUAGE; COMPUTER SYSTEM; INFORMATION PROCESSING; INFORMATION SYSTEM; NOMENCLATURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW;

EID: 0032898464     PISSN: 09333657     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0933-3657(98)00044-X     Document Type: Article

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