Automatic classification of sentences to support Evidence Based Medicine

BMC Bioinformatics

Volumn 12, Issue SUPPL. 2, 2011, Pages

  Kim, Su N ^a   Martinez, David ^a   Cavedon, Lawrence ^a,b   Yencken, Lars ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^b RMIT UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATIC CLASSIFICATION; BAG OF WORDS; CLASSIFICATION TASKS; CONDITIONAL RANDOM FIELD; EVIDENCE-BASED MEDICINE; FEATURE SETS; SEQUENTIAL INFORMATION;

CLASSIFICATION (OF INFORMATION); SEMANTICS;

ABSTRACTING;

ARTICLE; DOCUMENTATION; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; INFORMATION PROCESSING; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; METHODOLOGY; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING; SEMANTICS;

ABSTRACTING AND INDEXING AS TOPIC; AUTOMATIC DATA PROCESSING; EVIDENCE-BASED MEDICINE; INFORMATION STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING; SEMANTICS;

EID: 79953068683     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712105     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2105-12-S1-S5     Document Type: Article

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