Situated Question Answering in the Clinical Domain: Selecting the Best Drug Treatment for Diseases

COLING ACL 2006 - Task-Focused Summarization and Question Answering, Proceedings of the Workshop

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 24-31

  Demner Fushman, Dina ^a,b   Lin, Jimmy ^a,b  

^a Institute of Advanced Computer Science   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS; DRUG THERAPY; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS;

CLINICAL INFORMATION; FACTOID QUESTIONS; QUESTION ANSWERING; QUESTION ANSWERING SYSTEMS; REAL WORLD SETTING; SEARCH SYSTEM; SECONDARY SOURCES; TEST COLLECTION;

DISEASES;

EID: 78650960144     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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