Analyzing the Semantics of Patient Data to Rank Records of Literature Retrieval

Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics

Volumn , Issue , 2002, Pages 69-76

  Mendonça, Eneida A ^a   Johnson, Stephen B ^a   Seol, Yoon Ho ^a   Cimino, James J ^a  

^a Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLINICAL RESEARCH; HOSPITAL DATA PROCESSING; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS; SEARCH ENGINES;

CLINICAL DATA; CONCEPTUAL GRAPH; GRAPH NOTATION; GRAPH-MATCHING ALGORITHMS; INFORMATION-RETRIEVAL SYSTEMS; LITERATURE DATABASE; LITERATURE RETRIEVAL; MEDICAL RECORD; PATIENT DATA; PATIENT RECORD;

SEMANTICS;

EID: 0842339535     PISSN: 0736587X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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