Determining the difficulty of Word Sense Disambiguation

Journal of Biomedical Informatics

Volumn 47, Issue , 2014, Pages 83-90

  McInnes, Bridget T ^a   Stevenson, Mark ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Ambiguity; Biomedical documents; Natural language processing; NLP; Word sense disambiguation; WSD

Indexed keywords

LEARNING ALGORITHMS;

AMBIGUITY; BIOMEDICAL DOCUMENTS; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING; NLP; WORD SENSE DISAMBIGUATION; WSD;

NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS;

ARTICLE; DATA ANALYSIS; MEDICAL INFORMATION; MEDICAL SUBJECT HEADINGS; MEDICAL TERMINOLOGY; MEDLINE; METHODOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; UNIFIED MEDICAL LANGUAGE SYSTEM; WORD SENSE DISAMBIGUATION SYSTEM;

AMBIGUITY; BIOMEDICAL DOCUMENTS; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING; NLP; WORD SENSE DISAMBIGUATION; WSD;

ALGORITHMS; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; HUMANS; KNOWLEDGE BASES; LANGUAGE; MEDICAL INFORMATICS; MEDLINE; MODELS, STATISTICAL; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SEMANTICS; UNIFIED MEDICAL LANGUAGE SYSTEM; VOCABULARY, CONTROLLED;

EID: 84895450146     PISSN: 15320464     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jbi.2013.09.009     Document Type: Article

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