Extracting semantics in a clinical scenario

Conferences in Research and Practice in Information Technology Series

Volumn 68, Issue , 2007, Pages 241-247

  Zhang, Yitao ^a   Patrick, Jon ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Clinical proflle; Natural language processing; Semantics

Indexed keywords

CASE REPORTS; CLINICAL PROFLLE; LABORATORY TEST; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING; ONLINE REPOSITORIES;

GRID COMPUTING; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS; PATIENT TREATMENT; RESEARCH; SECURITY OF DATA;

SEMANTICS;

EID: 84871206164     PISSN: 14451336     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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