Automatic extraction of acronym-meaning Pairs from MEDLINE databases

Studies in Health Technology and Informatics

Volumn 84, Issue , 2001, Pages 371-375

  Pustejovsky, James ^a   Castaño, José ^a   Cochran, Brent ^b   Kotecki, Maciej ^b   Morrell, Michael ^a  

^a BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b TUFTS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Abstracting and Indexing; Acronyms; Information Storage and Retrieval; Medical Informatics; Medline; Pattern recognition

Indexed keywords

ABSTRACTING; BIOINFORMATICS; CHARACTER RECOGNITION; DIGITAL STORAGE; PATTERN RECOGNITION;

ABSTRACTING AND INDEXING; ACRONYMS; INFORMATION STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL; MEDICAL INFORMATICS; MEDLINE;

DATA MINING;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; AUTOMATED PATTERN RECOGNITION; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; INFORMATION SCIENCE; MEDLINE; METHODOLOGY; NOMENCLATURE;

ABBREVIATIONS; ALGORITHMS; INFORMATION SCIENCE; INFORMATION STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL; MEDLINE; PATTERN RECOGNITION, AUTOMATED;

EID: 63849165516     PISSN: 09269630     EISSN: 18798365     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.3233/978-1-60750-928-8-371     Document Type: Conference Paper

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