A machine-learning approach to negation and speculation detection in clinical texts

Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology

Volumn 63, Issue 7, 2012, Pages 1398-1410

  Cruz Díaz, Noa P ^a   Maña López, Manuel J ^a   Vázquez, Jacinto Mata ^a   Álvarez, Victoria Pachõn ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HUELVA   (Spain)

Author keywords

biomedical information; machine learning; natural language processing

Indexed keywords

BIOMEDICAL INFORMATION; BIOSCOPES; F-SCORE; MACHINE LEARNING TECHNIQUES; MACHINE-LEARNING; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING; REGULAR EXPRESSIONS; SENTENCE LEVEL; TEXT-MINING;

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS; LEARNING ALGORITHMS; LEARNING SYSTEMS; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS; OBJECT ORIENTED PROGRAMMING;

SIGNAL DETECTION;

EID: 84862299931     PISSN: 15322882     EISSN: 15322890     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/asi.22679     Document Type: Article

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