Use of general-purpose negation detection to augment concept indexing of medical documents: A quantitative study using the UMLS

Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association

Volumn 8, Issue 6, 2001, Pages 598-609

  Mutalik, P G ^a   Deshpande, A ^a   Nadkarni, P M ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

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ARTICLE; COMPUTER LANGUAGE; COMPUTER PROGRAM; DATA ANALYSIS; INFORMATION PROCESSING; INFORMATION SCIENCE; MEDICAL RECORD;

EID: 0035180309     PISSN: 10675027     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/jamia.2001.0080598     Document Type: Article

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