Extractive summarisation of medical documents using domain knowledge and corpus statistics

Australasian Medical Journal

Volumn 5, Issue 9, 2012, Pages 478-481

  Sarker, Abeed ^a   Mollá, Diego ^a   Paris, Cecile ^b  

^a MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b CSIRO   (Australia)

Author keywords

Automatic summarisation, extractive summarisation evidence based medicine, medical document summarisation

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUTOMATION; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; EXTRACTIVE SUMMARISATION APPROACH; MEDICAL DOCUMENTATION; MEDICAL INFORMATION; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; STATISTICS;

EID: 84867270788     PISSN: 18361935     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4066/AMJ.2012.1361     Document Type: Article

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