Resolving abbreviations to their senses in Medline

Bioinformatics

Volumn 21, Issue 18, 2005, Pages 3658-3664

  Gaudan, S ^a   Kirsch, H ^a   Rebholz Schuhmann, D ^a  

^a WELLCOME TRUST SANGER INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

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Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; AUTOMATION; CLINICAL RESEARCH; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA ANALYSIS; DOCUMENTATION; INFORMATION PROCESSING; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LINGUISTICS; MEDICAL INFORMATION SYSTEM; MEDLINE; NOMENCLATURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECALL; SCIENTIFIC LITERATURE;

EID: 24644505245     PISSN: 13674803     EISSN: 13674811     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/bioinformatics/bti586     Document Type: Article

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