Exploiting thesauri knowledge in medical guideline formalization

Methods of Information in Medicine

Volumn 48, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 468-474

  Serban, R ^a,b   Ten Teije, A ^a  

^a VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b IBM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Guideline modeling and formalization; Linguistic and control patterns

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; COMPUTER PROGRAM; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; HUMAN; LINGUISTICS; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; STANDARD;

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; EVIDENCE-BASED MEDICINE; HUMANS; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING; PRACTICE GUIDELINES AS TOPIC; SOFTWARE; VOCABULARY, CONTROLLED;

EID: 76649083941     PISSN: 00261270     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3414/ME0629     Document Type: Conference Paper

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