Automatic generation of textual summaries from neonatal intensive care data

Artificial Intelligence

Volumn 173, Issue 7-8, 2009, Pages 789-816

  Portet, François ^a   Reiter, Ehud ^a   Gatt, Albert ^a   Hunter, Jim ^a   Sripada, Somayajulu ^a   Freer, Yvonne ^b,c   Sykes, Cindy ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Decision support systems; Intelligent data analysis; Intensive care unit; Natural language generation

Indexed keywords

DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEMS; DECISION THEORY; INTENSIVE CARE UNITS; KNOWLEDGE ENGINEERING; LINGUISTICS; SIGNAL PROCESSING; VISUALIZATION;

AUTOMATIC GENERATIONS; CLINICAL DATUM; DISCRETE EVENTS; DRUG ADMINISTRATIONS; HUMAN EXPERTS; INTELLIGENT DATA ANALYSIS; ITS ARCHITECTURES; NATURAL LANGUAGE GENERATION; NEONATAL INTENSIVE CARES; PHYSIOLOGICAL SIGNALS; TEMPORAL INFORMATIONS; TEXTUAL ANALYSIS; TEXTUAL DESCRIPTIONS; VISUALISATION;

DECISION MAKING;

EID: 62549107437     PISSN: 00043702     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.artint.2008.12.002     Document Type: Article

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