Defining and relating biomedical terms: Towards a cross-language morphosemantics-based system

International Journal of Medical Informatics

Volumn 76, Issue 2-3, 2007, Pages 226-233

  Namer, Fiammetta ^a   Baud, Robert ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE LORRAINE   (France)

^b GENEVA UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Biomedical lexical database; Language; Morphosemantics for French; Multilingualism; Natural language processing; Neoclassical compounds; Semantic relations; Semantics

Indexed keywords

BIOMEDICAL LEXICAL DATABASES; MORPHOSEMANTICS; MULTILINGUALISM; NEOCLASSICAL COMPOUNDS; SEMANTIC RELATIONS;

BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING; COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS; DATABASE SYSTEMS; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS; SEMANTICS;

MEDICAL COMPUTING;

ARTICLE; DATA BASE; FRANCE; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; LANGUAGE; LANGUAGE PROCESSING; NOMENCLATURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEMANTICS;

FRANCE; LANGUAGE; MULTILINGUALISM; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING; SEMANTICS; TERMINOLOGY AS TOPIC; UNIFIED MEDICAL LANGUAGE SYSTEM;

EID: 33846786879     PISSN: 13865056     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijmedinf.2006.05.001     Document Type: Article

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