A knowledge acquisition methodology to ontology construction for information retrieval from medical documents

Expert Systems

Volumn 25, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 314-334

  Valencia García, Rafael ^a   Fernández Breis, Jesualdo Tomás ^a   Ruiz Martínez, Juana María ^a   García Sánchez, Francisco ^a   Martínez Béjar, Rodrigo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MURCIA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Information retrieval; Natural language processing; Ontologies; Ontology learning; UMLS

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATIC RETRIEVAL; DOMAIN ONTOLOGIES; FREE TEXTS; KNOWLEDGE MODELLING; MEDICAL DOCUMENTS; MEDICAL INFORMATION; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING; NATURAL LANGUAGES; ONTOLOGY CONSTRUCTION; ONTOLOGY LEARNING; SEMANTIC RELATIONS; SEMANTIC RELATIONSHIPS; SEMIAUTOMATIC METHODS; TEXT DOCUMENT; UMLS;

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; INFORMATION SERVICES; KNOWLEDGE ACQUISITION; LINGUISTICS; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS; SEMANTICS; TAXONOMIES;

ONTOLOGY;

EID: 56949097788     PISSN: 02664720     EISSN: 14680394     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-0394.2008.00464.x     Document Type: Article

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