Extracting causal knowledge from a medical database using graphical patterns

Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics

Volumn 2000-October, Issue , 2000, Pages

  Khoo, Christopher S G ^a   Chan, Syin ^a   Niu, Yun ^a  

^a NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS; DATA MINING; MEDICAL COMPUTING; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS;

CAUSAL RELATIONS; CAUSE-EFFECT; EFFECT INFORMATION; GRAPHICAL PATTERNS; KNOWLEDGE DISCOVERY SYSTEMS; KNOWLEDGE EXTRACTION; MEDICAL DATABASE; MEDLINE DATABASE; SYNTACTIC PARSE TREE; TEXTUAL DATABASE;

DATABASE SYSTEMS;

EID: 84887227748     PISSN: 0736587X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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