The effects of linguistic features and evaluation perspective on perceived difficulty of medical text

Proceedings of the Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages

  Leroy, Gondy ^a   Helmreich, Stephen ^b   Cowie, James R ^b  

^a CLAREMONT GRADUATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NEW MEXICO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FUNCTION WORDS; KNOWLEDGE GAPS; LINGUISTIC FEATURES; LINGUISTIC STRUCTURE; MEDICAL INFORMATION; NOUN PHRASE; SELF-EDUCATION; SENTENCE STRUCTURES;

KNOWLEDGE BASED SYSTEMS;

LINGUISTICS;

EID: 77951752822     PISSN: 15301605     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/HICSS.2010.374     Document Type: Conference Paper

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