A framework of a logic-based question-answering system for the medical domain (LOQAS-Med)

Proceedings of the ACM Symposium on Applied Computing

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 847-851

  Athenikos, Sofia J ^a   Han, Hyoil ^a   Brooks, Ari D ^b  

^a Drexel University   (United States)

^b DREXEL UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Biomedical informatics; Description logics; Natural language processing; Question answering; Semantic text mining

Indexed keywords

BIOMEDICAL INFORMATICS; DESCRIPTION LOGIC; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING; QUESTION ANSWERING; TEXT MINING;

BIOINFORMATICS; COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS; COMPUTER SCIENCE; DATA DESCRIPTION; HEALTH CARE; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; INFORMATION SERVICES; KNOWLEDGE REPRESENTATION; PROBLEM SOLVING; SEARCH ENGINES; SEMANTICS; XML;

NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS;

EID: 72949093754     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1529282.1529462     Document Type: Conference Paper

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