Building a high-quality sense inventory for improved abbreviation disambiguation

Bioinformatics

Volumn 26, Issue 9, 2010, Pages 1246-1253

  Okazaki, Naoaki ^a   Ananiadou, Sophia ^b   Tsujii, Jun'ichi ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

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ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; BIBLIOGRAPHIC DATABASE; BIOLOGY; BOOK; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; COMPUTER PROGRAM; MEDLINE; METHODOLOGY; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REPRODUCIBILITY; STATISTICAL MODEL;

ALGORITHMS; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; DATABASES, BIBLIOGRAPHIC; DICTIONARIES AS TOPIC; MEDLINE; MODELS, STATISTICAL; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SOFTWARE; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 77952829690     PISSN: 13674803     EISSN: 14602059     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/bioinformatics/btq129     Document Type: Article

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