Semantic structuring of and information extraction from Medical Documents using the UMLS

Methods of Information in Medicine

Volumn 47, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 425-434

  Denecke, K ^a  

^a L3S RESEARCH CENTER   (Germany)

Author keywords

Information extraction; Information storage and retrieval; Knowledge representation; Natural language processing

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; AUTOMATION; DATA EXTRACTION; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; MEDICAL DOCUMENTATION; MEDICAL INFORMATION SYSTEM; MEDICAL RECORD; NEOPLASM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEMANTICS; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY;

INFORMATION STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL; MEDICAL INFORMATICS; SEMANTICS; UNIFIED MEDICAL LANGUAGE SYSTEM;

EID: 55049102656     PISSN: 00261270     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3414/ME0508     Document Type: Article

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