Disambiguation in the biomedical domain: The role of ambiguity type

Journal of Biomedical Informatics

Volumn 43, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 972-981

  Stevenson, Mark ^a   Guo, Yikun ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Ambiguity; Biomedical documents; Natural Language Processing, NLP; Word Sense Disambiguation, WSD

Indexed keywords

AMBIGUITY; AUTOMATIC IDENTIFICATION; BIOMEDICAL DOCUMENTS; BIOMEDICAL DOMAIN; DATA SETS; DOMAIN-SPECIFIC KNOWLEDGE; KNOWLEDGE SOURCES; LEXICAL AMBIGUITY; LINGUISTIC FEATURES; MEDICAL SUBJECT HEADINGS; MEDLINE; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING; SYSTEM USE; SYSTEM'S PERFORMANCE; UNIFIED MEDICAL LANGUAGE SYSTEMS; WORD SENSE DISAMBIGUATION;

ABSTRACTING; AUTOMATION; COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS; DATABASE SYSTEMS; GENES; TEXT PROCESSING; WORD PROCESSING;

NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS;

AMBIGUITY; ARTICLE; AUTOMATION; BIOMEDICAL TECHNOLOGY ASSESSMENT; KNOWLEDGE; LEARNING ALGORITHM; LINGUISTICS; MEDICAL INFORMATION SYSTEM; MEDLINE; MESH HEADING; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STANDARD; SUPPORT VECTOR MACHINE;

COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; MEDICAL SUBJECT HEADINGS; MEDLINE; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING; UNIFIED MEDICAL LANGUAGE SYSTEM; UNITED STATES; VOCABULARY, CONTROLLED;

EID: 78649316468     PISSN: 15320464     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jbi.2010.08.009     Document Type: Article

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