A knowledge based method for the medical question answering problem

Computers in Biology and Medicine

Volumn 37, Issue 10, 2007, Pages 1511-1521

  Terol, Rafael M ^a   Martínez Barco, Patricio ^a   Palomar, Manuel ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALICANTE   (Spain)

Author keywords

Bioinformatics; Biomedical; Medical question taxonomies; Medicine; Medinformatics; Question answering framework; Text mining

Indexed keywords

BIOINFORMATICS; COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; DATA MINING; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS; PROBLEM SOLVING; TAXONOMIES;

LOGIC FORMS; MEDICAL TERMINOLOGY; QUESTION ANSWERING (QA) SYSTEM; UNIFIED MEDICAL LANGUAGE SYSTEM (UMLS);

KNOWLEDGE BASED SYSTEMS;

ARTICLE; BIOINFORMATICS; COMPUTER ANALYSIS; COMPUTER PROGRAM; MEDICAL INFORMATION; MEDICAL INFORMATION SYSTEM; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; COMPUTER SYSTEMS; INFORMATION STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL; KNOWLEDGE BASES; MEDICAL INFORMATICS APPLICATIONS; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING; TERMINOLOGY AS TOPIC; UNIFIED MEDICAL LANGUAGE SYSTEM;

EID: 34547603266     PISSN: 00104825     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.compbiomed.2007.01.013     Document Type: Article

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