A prototype application for real-time recognition and disambiguation of clinical abbreviations

International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 7-8

  Wu, Yonghui ^a   Denny, Joshua C ^b   Rosenbloom, S Trent ^b   Miller, Randolph A ^b   Giuse, Dario A ^b   Song, Min ^c   Xu, Hua ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS   (United States)

^b VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c Yonsei University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Clinical abbreviation; Clinical documentation system; Medical language processing; Real time; Word sense disambiguation

Indexed keywords

CLINICAL ABBREVIATION; CLINICAL DOCUMENTATION; MEDICAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING; REAL TIME; WORD SENSE DISAMBIGUATION;

BIOINFORMATICS; DATA MINING; HEALTH CARE; KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT; MEDICAL COMPUTING; RESPONSE TIME (COMPUTER SYSTEMS);

NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS;

EID: 84889603437     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2512089.2512096     Document Type: Conference Paper

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