Exploitation of linguistic indicators for automatic weighting of synonyms induced within three biomedical terminologies

Studies in Health Technology and Informatics

Volumn 160, Issue PART 1, 2010, Pages 1015-1019

  Grabar, Natalia ^a,b,c,d   Hamon, Thierry ^e  

^a CENTRE DE RECHERCHE DES CORDELIERS   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ PARIS DESCARTES   (France)

^c INSERM   (France)

^d ASSISTANCE PUBLIQUE HÔPITAUX DE PARIS   (France)

^e UNIVERSITÉ PARIS 13   (France)

Author keywords

Medical informatics; Natural language processing; Semantics; Terminology; UMLS; Vocabulary

Indexed keywords

NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS; SYNTACTICS; TERMINOLOGY;

COMPLEX TERM; LEXICAL RESOURCES; MEDICAL INFORMATICS; SEMANTIC RELATIONS; SYNTACTIC STRUCTURE; UMLS; VIRTUAL REFERENCE; VOCABULARY;

SEMANTICS;

EID: 78649496392     PISSN: 09269630     EISSN: 18798365     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.3233/978-1-60750-588-4-1015     Document Type: Conference Paper

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