Semantic annotation for concept-based cross-language medical information retrieval

International Journal of Medical Informatics

Volumn 67, Issue 1-3, 2002, Pages 97-112

  Volk, Martin ^a   Ripplinger, Bärbel ^a   Vintar, Špela ^b   Buitelaar, Paul ^b   Raileanu, Diana ^b   Sacaleanu, Bogdan ^b  

^a Eurospider Information Technology AG   (Switzerland)

^b GERMAN RESEARCH CENTER FOR ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE DFKI   (Germany)

Author keywords

Information systems; Linguistics; Natural language processing; Semantics; Unified Medical Language System

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; SEMANTICS;

BASELINE PERFORMANCE;

MEDICAL COMPUTING;

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; CONFERENCE PAPER; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; INFORMATION SYSTEM; LINGUISTICS; MEDICAL DOCUMENTATION; MEDICAL INFORMATION; NOMENCLATURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEMANTICS; SPEECH;

HUMANS; INFORMATION STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL; INFORMATION SYSTEMS; LINGUISTICS; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING; SEMANTICS; UNIFIED MEDICAL LANGUAGE SYSTEM;

EID: 0037021426     PISSN: 13865056     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1386-5056(02)00058-8     Document Type: Conference Paper

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