Medical question answering: Translating medical questions into SPARQL queries

IHI'12 - Proceedings of the 2nd ACM SIGHIT International Health Informatics Symposium

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 41-49

  Abacha, Asma Ben ^a   Zweigenbaum, Pierre ^a  

^a CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

Information extraction; Machine learning; Medical question analysis; Question answering; RDF; SPARQL

Indexed keywords

INFORMATION EXTRACTION; MACHINE-LEARNING; MEDICAL QUESTION ANALYSIS; QUESTION ANSWERING; RDF; SPARQL;

SEMANTIC WEB; SEMANTICS;

NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS;

EID: 84857758460     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2110363.2110372     Document Type: Conference Paper

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