Applying active learning to supervised word sense disambiguation in MEDLINE

Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association

Volumn 20, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 995-1000

  Chen, Yukun ^a   Cao, Hongxin ^b   Mei, Qiaozhu ^c   Zheng, Kai ^c   Xu, Hua ^a,d  

^a VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b SECOND MILITARY MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; LEARNING; LEARNING ALGORITHM; LEARNING CURVE; MEDLINE; SUPPORT VECTOR MACHINE; ALGORITHM; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; PROBLEM BASED LEARNING;

ALGORITHMS; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; MEDLINE; PROBLEM-BASED LEARNING; SUPPORT VECTOR MACHINES;

EID: 84891645802     PISSN: 10675027     EISSN: 1527974X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/amiajnl-2012-001244     Document Type: Article

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