Disambiguating ambiguous biomedical terms in biomedical narrative text: An unsupervised method

Journal of Biomedical Informatics

Volumn 34, Issue 4, 2001, Pages 249-261

  Liu, Hongfang ^a   Lussier, Yves A ^c   Friedman, Carol ^b,c  

^a CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^b CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^c NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

Corpus based machine learning; MedLEE; MEDLINE; Natural language processing; UMLS; Word sense disambiguation

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; BIOINFORMATICS; EDUCATIONAL TECHNOLOGY; INFORMATION PROCESSING; LANGUAGE; LEARNING; MEDLINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 0035564886     PISSN: 15320464     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/jbin.2001.1023     Document Type: Article

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