Automatic lexeme acquisition for a multilingual medical subword thesaurus

International Journal of Medical Informatics

Volumn 76, Issue 2-3, 2007, Pages 184-189

  Markó, Kornél ^a   Schulz, Stefan ^a   Hahn, Udo ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

^b FRIEDRICH SCHILLER UNIVERSITY JENA   (Germany)

Author keywords

Controlled; Information storage and retrieval; Medical informatics; Multilingualism; Vocabulary

Indexed keywords

INFORMATION STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL; MEDICAL INFORMATICS; MULTILINGUAL MEDICAL LEXICON; MULTILINGUALISM;

DATA ACQUISITION; GLOSSARIES; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL SYSTEMS; LINGUISTICS; SEMANTICS; TRANSLATION (LANGUAGES);

THESAURI;

ARTICLE; AUTOMATION; HYPOTHESIS; LANGUAGE ABILITY; LINGUISTICS; MEDICAL DOCUMENTATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEMANTICS; VALIDATION PROCESS;

AUTOMATIC DATA PROCESSING; HUMANS; INFORMATION STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL; LANGUAGE; MEDICAL INFORMATICS; MULTILINGUALISM; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING; SEMANTICS; TERMINOLOGY AS TOPIC; UNIFIED MEDICAL LANGUAGE SYSTEM; VOCABULARY, CONTROLLED;

EID: 33846870316     PISSN: 13865056     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijmedinf.2006.05.032     Document Type: Article

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