Extracting answers from causal mechanisms in a medical document

Neurocomputing

Volumn 135, Issue , 2014, Pages 53-60

  Sobrino, A ^a   Puente, C ^b   Olivas, J A ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SANTIAGO DE COMPOSTELA   (Spain)

^b Universidad Pontificia Comillas   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CASTILLA LA MANCHA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Answering causal questions; Causal questions; Imperfect causality; Mechanisms

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER APPLICATIONS; MECHANISMS; NEURAL NETWORKS;

AUTOMATIC DETECTION; CAUSAL QUESTIONS; CAUSAL RELATIONS; IMPERFECT CAUSALITY; MEDICAL DOCUMENTS; MEDICAL KNOWLEDGE; MEDICAL QUESTION ANSWERING; PHYSICAL SCIENCE;

SEARCH ENGINES; MECHANISMS;

ARTICLE; AUTOMATION; CAUSAL ATTRIBUTION; DATA EXTRACTION; DOCTOR PATIENT RELATION; EPIDEMIOLOGY; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; MEDICAL DOCUMENTATION; MEDICAL INFORMATION SYSTEM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROFESSIONAL KNOWLEDGE; SEARCH ENGINE; CONCEPT ANALYSIS; CONTENT ANALYSIS; DOCUMENT EXAMINATION; MEDICOLEGAL ASPECT;

EID: 84897914316     PISSN: 09252312     EISSN: 18728286     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neucom.2013.05.056     Document Type: Article

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