Fast tagging of medical terms in legal text

Proceedings of the International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Law

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 253-260

  Dozier, Christopher ^a   Kondadadi, Ravi ^a   Al Kofahi, Khalid ^a   Chaudhary, Mark ^a   Guo, Xi ^a  

^a Thomson Corporation   (United States)

Author keywords

Context disambiguation; Medical litigation; Medical terms; Medical text; MetaMap; UMLS

Indexed keywords

FINITE AUTOMATA; FUZZY SYSTEMS; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; LAWS AND LEGISLATION; PROFESSIONAL ASPECTS;

CONTEXT DISAMBIGUATION; MEDICAL LITIGATION; MEDICAL TERMS; MEDICAL TEXT; METAMAP; UMLS;

TEXT PROCESSING;

EID: 34548032127     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1276318.1276367     Document Type: Conference Paper

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