Restoring accents in unknown biomedical words: Application to the French MeSH thesaurus

International Journal of Medical Informatics

Volumn 67, Issue 1-3, 2002, Pages 113-126

  Zweigenbaum, Pierre ^a   Grabar, Natalia ^a  

^a PITIÉ SALPÊTRIÈRE HOSPITAL   (France)

Author keywords

Algorithms; Controlled vocabulary; France; Language; Machine learning; Natural language processing

Indexed keywords

BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING; COMPUTER PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES; ELECTRONIC MEDICAL EQUIPMENT; SPEECH CODING; THESAURI; TRANSDUCERS;

DIACRITIC MARKS;

MEDICAL COMPUTING;

ACCURACY; ALGORITHM; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; AUTOMATION; CONFERENCE PAPER; ERROR; LINGUISTICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPEECH; VALIDATION PROCESS;

ALGORITHMS; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; FRANCE; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; NATIONAL LIBRARY OF MEDICINE (U.S.); NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING; SUBJECT HEADINGS; UNITED STATES; VOCABULARY, CONTROLLED;

EID: 0037021425     PISSN: 13865056     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1386-5056(02)00056-4     Document Type: Article

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