The interaction of domain knowledge and linguistic structure in natural language processing: Interpreting hypernymic propositions in biomedical text

Journal of Biomedical Informatics

Volumn 36, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 462-477

  Rindflesch, Thomas C ^a   Fiszman, Marcelo ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

Information extraction; Knowledge representation; Natural language processing; Semantic processing

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BIOCHEMISTRY; ERROR; EVALUATION; LANGUAGE; LINGUISTICS; MEDICAL INFORMATICS; MEDICAL INFORMATION SYSTEM; MEDLINE; METATHESAURUS; METHODOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEMANTICS; TAXONOMY;

EID: 0842283365     PISSN: 15320464     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jbi.2003.11.003     Document Type: Article

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