UMLF: A unified medical lexicon for French

International Journal of Medical Informatics

Volumn 74, Issue 2-4, 2005, Pages 119-124

  Zweigenbaum, Pierre ^a   Baud, Robert ^b   Burgun, Anita ^c   Namer, Fiammetta ^d   Jarrousse, Éric ^e   Grabar, Natalia ^a   Ruch, Patrick ^b   Le Duff, Franck ^c   Forget, Jean François ^e   Douyère, Magaly ^f   Darmoni, Stéfan ^f  

^a ASSISTANCE PUBLIQUE HÔPITAUX DE PARIS   (France)

^b GENEVA UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS   (Switzerland)

^c PONTCHAILLOU UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (France)

^d UNIVERSITÉ DE LORRAINE   (France)

^e VIDAL   (France)

^f ROUEN UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (France)

Author keywords

Algorithms; Controlled vocabulary; France; Funding; Language; Natural language processing; Non US government

Indexed keywords

INDEXING (OF INFORMATION); INFORMATION THEORY; MEDICAL APPLICATIONS; PROFESSIONAL ASPECTS; THESAURI;

LEXICAL RESOURCES; MEDICAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING; UNIFIED MEDICAL LEXICON FOR FRENCE (UMLF);

INFORMATION RETRIEVAL;

ARTICLE; INFORMATION PROCESSING; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; LANGUAGE; MEDICAL INFORMATICS; MEDICAL INFORMATION SYSTEM; NOMENCLATURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ABSTRACTING AND INDEXING; FRANCE; INFORMATION STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL; VOCABULARY, CONTROLLED;

EID: 13444259425     PISSN: 13865056     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijmedinf.2004.03.010     Document Type: Article

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