An incremental approach for discovering medical knowledge from texts

Expert Systems with Applications

Volumn 26, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 291-299

  Valencia García, Rafael ^a   Ruiz Sánchez, Juana María ^a   Vivancos Vicente, Pedro José ^a   Fernández Breis, Jesualdo Tomás ^a   Martínez Béjar, Rodrigo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MURCIA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Knowledge acquisition; Knowledge representation; Ontologies

Indexed keywords

EXPERT SYSTEMS; KNOWLEDGE REPRESENTATION; LEARNING SYSTEMS; MEDICAL APPLICATIONS; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS; STATISTICAL METHODS; TEXT PROCESSING;

ONTOLOGIES; REASONING PROCESSES; TAXONOMIES;

KNOWLEDGE ACQUISITION;

EID: 0346341102     PISSN: 09574174     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.eswa.2003.09.001     Document Type: Article

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