Defining medical words: Transposing morphosemantic analysis from french to english

Studies in Health Technology and Informatics

Volumn 129, Issue , 2007, Pages 535-539

  Deléger, Louise ^a,b,c   Namer, Fiammetta ^d   Zweigenbaum, Pierre ^e,f  

^a CENTRE DE RECHERCHE DES CORDELIERS   (France)

^b SORBONNE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

^c UNIVERSITÉ PARIS DESCARTES   (France)

^d UNIVERSITÉ DE LORRAINE   (France)

^e UFR 919 Laboratoire d'Informatique Pour la Mécanique et les Sciences de l'Ingénieur   (France)

^f INALCO   (France)

Author keywords

morphosemantic analysis; natural language processing; neoclassical compounds; word definition

Indexed keywords

SEMANTICS;

CURRENT PERFORMANCE; HIERARCHICAL DECOMPOSITIONS; LINGUISTIC ANALYSIS; MORPHOSEMANTIC ANALYSIS; NEOCLASSICAL COMPOUNDS; TECHNICAL LANGUAGES; WORD DEFINITION;

NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS;

ARTICLE; LANGUAGE; LINGUISTICS; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING; NOMENCLATURE;

LINGUISTICS; MULTILINGUALISM; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING; TERMINOLOGY AS TOPIC; TRANSLATING;

EID: 38449104570     PISSN: 09269630     EISSN: 18798365     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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