Using second-order vectors in a knowledge-based method for acronym disambiguation

CoNLL 2011 - Fifteenth Conference on Computational Natural Language Learning, Proceedings of the Conference

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 145-153

  Mcinnes, Bridget T ^a   Pedersen, Ted ^b   Liu, Ying ^a   Pakhomov, Serguei V ^a   Melton, Genevieve B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA DULUTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOMEDICAL TEXT; CO-OCCURRENCE; DATA SETS; KNOWLEDGE-BASED METHODS; MEDLINE; SECOND ORDERS; SECOND-ORDER FEATURES; UNIFIED MEDICAL LANGUAGE SYSTEMS;

KNOWLEDGE BASED SYSTEMS; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS;

MEDICAL INFORMATION SYSTEMS;

EID: 84857773950     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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