Answer extraction, semantic clustering, and extractive summarization for clinical question answering

COLING/ACL 2006 - 21st International Conference on Computational Linguistics and 44th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, Proceedings of the Conference

Volumn 1, Issue , 2006, Pages 841-848

  Demner Fushman, Dina ^a,b   Lin, Jimmy ^a,b  

^a University of Maryland ^*  (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABSTRACTING; COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS; DRUG THERAPY; SEMANTICS;

ANSWER EXTRACTION; EXTRACTIVE SUMMARIZATIONS; HYBRID APPROACH; MEDLINE; QUESTION ANSWERING; SEARCH SYSTEM; SEMANTIC CLASS; SEMANTIC CLUSTERING;

NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS;

EID: 34047143101     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.3115/1220175.1220281     Document Type: Conference Paper

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