Negation recognition in medical narrative reports

Information Retrieval

Volumn 11, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 499-538

  Rokach, Lior ^a   Romano, Roni ^b   Maimon, Oded ^b  

^a BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

^b TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Artificial intelligence; Narrative medical reports; Negation; Part of speech tagging; Text classification

Indexed keywords

EID: 49549094278     PISSN: 13864564     EISSN: 15737659     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10791-008-9061-0     Document Type: Article

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