Quality issues in thesaurus building: A case study from the medical domain;Questões de qualidade em construção de thesaurus: Um estudo de caso do domínio medico

Revista Brasileira de Engenharia Biomedica

Volumn 28, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 11-22

  Nohama, Percy ^a,b   Pacheco, Edson José ^b   de Andrade, Roosewelt Leite ^b   Bitencourt, Jeferson Luiz ^c   Markó, Kornél ^c   Schulz, Stefan ^d  

^a PONTIFICAL CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY OF PARANÁ   (Brazil)

^b UNIVERSIDADE TECNOLÓGICA FEDERAL DO PARANÁ   (Brazil)

^c UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

^d MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF GRAZ   (Austria)

Author keywords

Information storage and retrieval; Multilingualism; Natural language processing; Semantics; Thesaurus engineering

Indexed keywords

ANOMALY DETECTION; CONSTRUCTION PROCESS; DETECTION TECHNIQUE; FREQUENCY VARIATION; INDEXING AND RETRIEVAL; INFORMATION STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL; INHERENT COMPLEXITY; MAINTENANCE PROCESS; MEDICAL DOMAINS; MEDICAL TERMINOLOGIES; MULTILINGUALISM; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING; NON-TRIVIAL TASKS; OHSUMED; OVERALL QUALITY; PARALLEL CORPORA; SEARCH RESULTS; STATIC ERROR;

BENCHMARKING; COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS; ERRORS; MAINTAINABILITY; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS; QUALITY CONTROL; SEMANTICS; SOFTWARE AGENTS;

THESAURI;

EID: 84858734284     PISSN: 15173151     EISSN: 19847742     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4322/rbeb.2012.002     Document Type: Article

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