ALICE: An algorithm to extract abbreviations from MEDLINE

Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association

Volumn 12, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 576-586

  Ao, Hiroko ^a,b   Takagi, Toshihisa ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b Kanebo Cosmetics Inc   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; DATA BASE; MEDICAL INFORMATION SYSTEM; MEDICAL LITERATURE; MEDLINE; NOMENCLATURE; RANDOMIZATION;

ABBREVIATIONS; ALGORITHMS; INFORMATION STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL; MEDLINE; PATTERN RECOGNITION, AUTOMATED;

EID: 24044450547     PISSN: 10675027     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1197/jamia.M1757     Document Type: Article

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