A text corpora-based estimation of the familiarity of health terminology

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 3745 LNBI, Issue , 2005, Pages 184-192

  Zeng, Qing ^a   Kim, Eunjung ^a   Crowell, Jon ^a   Tse, Tony ^b  

^a BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CORPORA-BASED ESTIMATION; HEALTH COMMUNICATION; HEALTH TERMINOLOGY; MEDICAL TERMINOLOGY QUIZZES;

COMPUTER SCIENCE; DATA ACQUISITION; HEALTH CARE; INFORMATION DISSEMINATION; INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; STATISTICAL METHODS;

BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING;

EID: 33745318205     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/11573067_19     Document Type: Conference Paper

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