Acquiring meaning for French medical terminology: Contribution of morphosemantics

Studies in Health Technology and Informatics

Volumn 107, Issue , 2004, Pages 535-539

  Namer, Fiammetta ^a   Zweigenbaum, Pierre ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE LORRAINE   (France)

^b ASSISTANCE PUBLIQUE HÔPITAUX DE PARIS   (France)

Author keywords

Biomedical lexical database; France; Language; Morphosemantics; Natural Language Processing; Neoclassical Compounds; Semantic Relations; Semantics

Indexed keywords

SEMANTICS; TERMINOLOGY; MEDICAL INFORMATICS; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS;

FRANCE; LANGUAGE; LEXICAL DATABASE; MORPHOSEMANTICS; NEOCLASSICAL COMPOUNDS; SEMANTIC RELATIONS; BIOMEDICAL LEXICAL DATABASE; LANGUAGE PROCESSING; MORPHOSEMANTIC; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING; NATURAL LANGUAGES; NEOCLASSICAL COMPOUND;

NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS; SEMANTICS;

CONFERENCE PAPER; FRANCE; MEDICAL TERMINOLOGY; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING; SEMANTICS; SYNTHESIS;

EID: 52149124002     PISSN: 09269630     EISSN: 18798365     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.3233/978-1-60750-949-3-535     Document Type: Article

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