Chinese chief complaint classification for syndromic surveillance

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 4506 LNCS, Issue , 2007, Pages 11-22

  Lu, Hsin Min ^a   King, Chwan Chuen ^b   Wu, Tsung Shu ^b   Shih, Fuh Yuan ^c   Hsiao, Jin Yi ^b   Zeng, Daniel ^a   Chen, Hsinchun ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^b NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^c NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Chinese chief complaints; Medical ontology; Multilingual chief complaint classification; Mutual information; Syndromic surveillance; UMLS

Indexed keywords

CLASSIFICATION (OF INFORMATION); TEXT PROCESSING;

CHINESE CHIEF COMPLAINTS; MEDICAL ONTOLOGY; MULTILINGUAL CHIEF COMPLAINT CLASSIFICATION; MUTUAL INFORMATION; SYNDROMIC SURVEILLANCE;

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS;

EID: 37249081523     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-72608-1_2     Document Type: Conference Paper

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