Virtual telemedicine using natural language processing

International Journal of Information Technology and Web Engineering

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 43-55

  Bajwa, Imran Sarwar ^a  

^a THE ISLAMIA UNIVERSITY OF BAHAWALPUR   (Pakistan)

Author keywords

Expert system; Information retrieval; Telecommunication for health; Telemedicine; Text processing

Indexed keywords

LONG DISTANCES; MEDICAL EXPERTS; MEDICAL FACILITY; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING; REMOTE AREAS; TIME CONSTRAINTS;

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS; EXPERT SYSTEMS; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS; TELECOMMUNICATION; TEXT PROCESSING; WORD PROCESSING;

TELEMEDICINE;

EID: 77954942421     PISSN: 15541045     EISSN: 15541053     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4018/jitwe.2010010103     Document Type: Article

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