The effect of different context representations on word sense discrimination in biomedical texts

IHI'10 - Proceedings of the 1st ACM International Health Informatics Symposium

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 56-65

  Pedersen, Ted ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA DULUTH   (United States)

Author keywords

natural language processing; semantic ambiguity; word sense discrimination

Indexed keywords

BIOMEDICAL TEXT; CONTEXT REPRESENTATION; FIRST-ORDER; MEDLINE; MULTIPLE CONTEXTS; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING; NUMBER OF CLUSTERS; OPEN SOURCE SOFTWARE; SECOND ORDERS; WORD CO-OCCURRENCE; WORD SENSE DISCRIMINATIONS;

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; EXPERIMENTS; INFORMATION SCIENCE; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS; OPEN SYSTEMS; SEMANTICS;

INFORMATION DISSEMINATION;

EID: 78650949174     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1882992.1883003     Document Type: Conference Paper

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