A cluster-based approach for semantic similarity in the biomedical domain

Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology - Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 2713-2717

  Al Mubaid, Hisham ^a   Nguyen, Hoa A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON CLEAR LAKE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CORRELATION METHODS; DATA STRUCTURES; ONTOLOGY; SEMANTICS;

BIOMEDICAL DOMAIN; CROSS-MODIFIED PATH LENGTH FEATURES; UMLS;

BIOINFORMATICS;

ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; AUTOMATED PATTERN RECOGNITION; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED VOCABULARY; DOCUMENTATION; METHODOLOGY; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING; UNIFIED MEDICAL LANGUAGE SYSTEM;

ABSTRACTING AND INDEXING AS TOPIC; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING; PATTERN RECOGNITION, AUTOMATED; UNIFIED MEDICAL LANGUAGE SYSTEM; VOCABULARY, CONTROLLED;

EID: 34047150038     PISSN: 05891019     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IEMBS.2006.259235     Document Type: Conference Paper

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