Analysis of the effect of negation on information retrieval of medical data

ADCS 2010 - Proceedings of the Fifteenth Australasian Document Computing Symposium

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 89-92

  Koopman, Bevan ^a   Bruza, Peter ^b   Sitbon, Laurianne ^b   Lawley, Michael ^a  

^a CSIRO   (Australia)

^b QUEENSLAND UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Information retrieval; Natural Language Techniques and Documents

Indexed keywords

CHEST PAIN; HIGH FREQUENCY; LANGUAGE MODEL; MEDICAL DATA; MEDICAL RECORD; NATURAL LANGUAGE TECHNIQUES; TEST CORPUS;

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS;

INFORMATION RETRIEVAL;

EID: 84872836376     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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