Disambiguation of ambiguous biomedical terms using examples generated from the UMLS Metathesaurus

Journal of Biomedical Informatics

Volumn 43, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 762-773

  Stevenson, Mark ^a   Guo, Yikun ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Natural Language Processing; NLP; UMLS; Unified Medical Language System; Word Sense Disambiguation; WSD

Indexed keywords

NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING; NLP; UMLS; UNIFIED MEDICAL LANGUAGE SYSTEMS; WORD SENSE DISAMBIGUATION; WSD;

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS; TEXT PROCESSING; WORD PROCESSING;

NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; AUTOMATION; BIOMEDICINE; MEDLINE; MESH HEADING; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING; NOMENCLATURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TECHNOLOGY; WORD SENSE DISAMBIGUATION;

DATABASES, FACTUAL; MEDICAL INFORMATICS; MEDICAL SUBJECT HEADINGS; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; TERMINOLOGY AS TOPIC; UNIFIED MEDICAL LANGUAGE SYSTEM;

EID: 77956264917     PISSN: 15320464     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jbi.2010.06.001     Document Type: Article

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