Exploring surface-level heuristics for negation and speculation discovery in clinical texts

Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 81-82

  Apostolova, Emilia ^a   Tomuro, Noriko ^a  

^a DEPAUL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS;

'CURRENT; ACCURATE COMPUTATIONS; AUTOMATIC IDENTIFICATION; BIOMEDICAL TEXT; BIOSCOPES; BOOTSTRAPPING ALGORITHM; COMPUTATIONAL COSTS; LINGUISTIC FEATURES; PERFORMANCE; SIMPLE++;

AUTOMATION;

EID: 84859025295     PISSN: 0736587X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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