Exploiting domain information for word sense disambiguation of medical documents

Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association

Volumn 19, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 235-240

  Stevenson, Mark ^a   Agirre, Eneko ^b   Soroa, Aitor ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF THE BASQUE COUNTRY   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; AMBIGUITY; ARTICLE; CALCULATION; CLINICAL EVALUATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEEDBACK SYSTEM; HUMAN; KNOWLEDGE; LIBRARY; MEDICAL DOCUMENTATION; MEDICAL INFORMATION; MEDICAL INFORMATION SYSTEM; MEDICAL TECHNOLOGY; NOMENCLATURE; STANDARD; WORD SENSE DISAMBIGUATION;

INFORMATION STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL; KNOWLEDGE BASES; MEDICAL INFORMATICS; MEDICAL SUBJECT HEADINGS; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING; TERMINOLOGY AS TOPIC; UNIFIED MEDICAL LANGUAGE SYSTEM;

EID: 84857161451     PISSN: 10675027     EISSN: 1527974X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/amiajnl-2011-000415     Document Type: Article

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