From rhetorical structures to document structure: Shallow pragmatic analysis for document engineering

DocEng'09 - Proceedings of the 2009 ACM Symposium on Document Engineering

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 185-192

  Georg, Gersende ^a   Hernault, Hugo ^b   Cavazza, Marc ^c   Prendinger, Helmut ^d   Ishizuka, Mitsuru ^b  

^a Ancien Délégué Général de la Fédération de l'Hospitalisation Privée   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^c TEESSIDE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^d NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF INFORMATICS   (Japan)

Author keywords

Medical document processing; Natural language processing

Indexed keywords

ALZHEIMER DISEASE; APPLICATION-SPECIFIC; AUTOMATIC PROCESSING; CLINICAL GUIDELINE; CONTENT ANALYSIS; DEONTIC; DEONTIC OPERATORS; DOCUMENT ENGINEERING; DOCUMENT STRUCTURE; FREE TEXTS; KNOWLEDGE EXTRACTION; MEDICAL DOCUMENTS; MULTIPLE VIEWS; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING; RHETORICAL STRUCTURE; RHETORICAL STRUCTURE THEORY; SENTENCE STRUCTURES; TARGET AUDIENCE;

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS; PHILOSOPHICAL ASPECTS; TEXT PROCESSING;

NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS;

EID: 70450265536     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1600193.1600235     Document Type: Conference Paper

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