A vocabulary development and visualization tool based on natural language processing and the mining of textual patient reports

Journal of Biomedical Informatics

Volumn 36, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 189-201

  Friedman, Carol ^a   Liu, Hongfang ^a   Shagina, Lyudmila ^a  

^a VC 5 Bldg ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Controlled vocabulary; Medical terminology; Natural language processing; Text mining; XML based graphical user interface

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; COMPUTER PROGRAM; INFORMATION PROCESSING; INFORMATION SYSTEM; LINGUISTICS; MEDICAL INFORMATICS; MEDICAL RESEARCH; MINING; NOMENCLATURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 0242690445     PISSN: 15320464     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jbi.2003.08.005     Document Type: Article

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