Harnessing cyc to answer clinical researchers ad hoc queries

AI Magazine

Volumn 31, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 13-32

  Lenat, Douglas ^a   Witbrock, Michael ^d   Baxter, David ^d   Blackstone, Eugene ^b   Deaton, Chris ^c   Schneider, Dave ^d   Scott, Jerry ^d   Shepard, Blake ^c  

^a CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM   (United States)

^c LERNER RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^d NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FORMAL LOGIC; KNOWLEDGE BASED SYSTEMS; ONTOLOGY; SEMANTICS;

ANALYTICAL QUERIES; CLEVELAND CLINIC FOUNDATION; CLINICAL RESEARCHERS; FALSE NEGATIVES; HIGHER ORDER LOGIC; MEDICAL DOMAINS; SEMANTIC SEARCH; SEMI STRUCTURED DATA;

QUERY PROCESSING;

EID: 79953722529     PISSN: 07384602     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1609/aimag.v31i3.2299     Document Type: Article

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