A multilingual ontology for infectious disease surveillance: Rationale, design and challenges

Language Resources and Evaluation

Volumn 40, Issue 3-4, 2006, Pages 405-413

  Collier, Nigel ^a   Kawazoe, Ai ^a   Jin, Lihua ^a   Shigematsu, Mika ^b   Dien, Dinh ^c   Barrero, Roberto A ^d   Takeuchi, Koichi ^e   Kawtrakul, Asanee ^f  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF INFORMATICS   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (Japan)

^c VIETNAM NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Viet Nam)

^d MURDOCH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^e OKAYAMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^f KASETSART UNIVERSITY   (Thailand)

Author keywords

Infectious disease surveillance; Multilingual ontology; Text mining

Indexed keywords

EID: 35548968033     PISSN: 1574020X     EISSN: 15728412     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10579-007-9019-7     Document Type: Article

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