Knowledge extraction for clinical question answering: Preliminary results

AAAI Workshop - Technical Report

Volumn WS-05-10, Issue , 2005, Pages 1-9

  Demner Fushman, Dina ^a,b   Lin, Jimmy ^b  

^a University of Maryland ^*  (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DATA PROCESSING; DECISION MAKING; KNOWLEDGE ENGINEERING; MEDICINE; PATIENT MONITORING; SEMANTICS;

AUTOMATIC SEMANTIC PROCESSING; CLINICAL QUESTION ANSWERING; KNOWLEDGE EXTRACTION; PATIENT CARE;

KNOWLEDGE ACQUISITION;

EID: 33646065671     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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