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HLT-NAACL 2006 - BioNLP 2006: Linking Natural Language Processing and Biology: Towards Deeper Biological Literature Analysis, Proceedings of the Workshop

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 1-8

  Yu, Hong ^a   Wei, Ying ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MILWAUKEE   (United States)

^b Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DISEASES; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS; VIRUSES; SEMANTICS;

DEFINITIONAL QUESTION ANSWERING; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS; INFECTIOUS DISEASE; KNOWLEDGE RESOURCE; LEXICAL SEMANTICS; LEXICO-SYNTACTIC PATTERNS; SEMANTIC TYPES; UNIFIED MEDICAL LANGUAGE SYSTEMS; 'CURRENT; BODY PARTS; DEFINIENS; QUESTION ANSWERING SYSTEMS; SEMANTIC PATTERN;

SEMANTICS; DISEASES;

EID: 84890555562     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.3115/1567619.1567621     Document Type: Conference Paper

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