Determining the syntactic structure of medical terms in clinical notes

ACL 2007 - Proceedings of the Workshop on BioNLP 2007: Biological, Translational, and Clinical Language Processing

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 9-16

  McInnes, Bridget T ^a   Pedersen, Ted ^b   Pakhomov, Serguei V ^c  

^a University of Minnesota   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA DULUTH   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SEMANTICS; TRANSLATION (LANGUAGES);

AUTOMATIC MAPPING; CLINICAL NOTES; LOG LIKELIHOOD RATIO; MEDICAL TERMS; MODEL FITTING METHOD; SEMANTIC INTERPRETATION; SYNTACTIC STRUCTURE;

SYNTACTICS;

EID: 84886757299     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.3115/1572392.1572395     Document Type: Conference Paper

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