Semantic Classification of Biomedical Concepts Using Distributional Similarity

Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association

Volumn 14, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 467-477

  Fan, Jung Wei ^a   Friedman, Carol ^a  

^a Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANALYTICAL ERROR; ARTICLE; AUTOMATION; CLASSIFICATION; COMPUTER PROGRAM; HIGH THROUGHPUT SCREENING; INFORMATION PROCESSING; LANGUAGE PROCESSING; LIBRARY; MACHINE LEARNING; MEASUREMENT; MEDICAL INFORMATION SYSTEM; PREDICTION; SEMANTICS; SPEECH ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL DISTRIBUTION;

CLASSIFICATION; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING; SEMANTICS; TERMINOLOGY; UNIFIED MEDICAL LANGUAGE SYSTEM;

EID: 34250744835     PISSN: 10675027     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1197/jamia.M2314     Document Type: Article

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