Morphosemantic parsing of medical compound words: Transferring a French analyzer to English

International Journal of Medical Informatics

Volumn 78, Issue SUPPL. 1, 2009, Pages S48-S55

  Deléger, Louise ^a,b,c   Namer, Fiammetta ^d   Zweigenbaum, Pierre ^e,f  

^a CENTRE DE RECHERCHE DES CORDELIERS   (France)

^b SORBONNE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

^c UNIVERSITÉ PARIS DESCARTES   (France)

^d UNIVERSITÉ DE LORRAINE   (France)

^e UFR 919 Laboratoire d'Informatique Pour la Mécanique et les Sciences de l'Ingénieur   (France)

^f INALCO   (France)

Author keywords

English; French; Morphosemantic analysis; Natural language processing; Neoclassical compounds; Word definition

Indexed keywords

HIERARCHICAL SYSTEMS; SEMANTICS;

ENGLISH; FRENCH; MORPHOSEMANTIC ANALYSIS; NEOCLASSICAL COMPOUNDS; WORD DEFINITION;

NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS;

ANALYZER; ARTICLE; FRANCE; LANGUAGE; MEDICAL DOCUMENTATION; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECALL; SEMANTICS;

EID: 62949121339     PISSN: 13865056     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijmedinf.2008.07.016     Document Type: Article

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