Classifying medical questions based on an evidence taxonomy

AAAI Workshop - Technical Report

Volumn WS-05-10, Issue , 2005, Pages 27-35

  Yu, Hong ^a   Sable, Carl ^b   Zhu, Hai Ran ^c  

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

^b The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art   (United States)

^c Department of Computer Science ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MACHINE-LEARNING APPROACHES; MEDICAL QUESTIONS; TAXONOMY; UNIFIED MEDICAL LANGUAGE SYSTEM (UMLS);

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING; CLASSIFICATION (OF INFORMATION); LEARNING SYSTEMS; QUERY LANGUAGES; ROBUSTNESS (CONTROL SYSTEMS);

KNOWLEDGE BASED SYSTEMS;

EID: 33646067775     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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