Applying NLP techniques and biomedical resources to medical questions in QA performance

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

Volumn 4293 LNAI, Issue , 2006, Pages 996-1006

  Terol, Rafael M ^a   Martinez Barco, Patricio ^a   Palomar, Manuel ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALICANTE   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING; FORMAL LOGIC; INFORMATION ANALYSIS; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS; PATTERN MATCHING;

BIOMEDICAL RESOURCES; NATURAL LANGUAGE QUESTIONS; QUESTION ANALYSIS PERFORMANCE;

LEARNING SYSTEMS;

EID: 33845930612     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/11925231_95     Document Type: Conference Paper

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