Evaluation of DEFINDER: A system to mine definitions from consumer-oriented medical text

Proceedings of the ACM International Conference on Digital Libraries

Volumn , Issue , 2001, Pages 201-202

  Klavans, Judith L ^a   Muresan, Smaranda ^b  

^a Howard Hughes Medical Institute   (United States)

^b Fu Foundation School of Engineering and Applied Science   (United States)

Author keywords

Automatic dictionary creation; Medical digital libraries; Natural language processing; Text data mining

Indexed keywords

NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS;

AUTOMATIC DICTIONARY CREATION; INTERMEDIATE COMPLEXITY; MEDICAL DIGITAL LIBRARY; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING; QUALITATIVE EVALUATIONS; QUANTITATIVE EVALUATION; TEXT DATA MINING; UNIFIED MEDICAL LANGUAGE SYSTEMS;

DIGITAL LIBRARIES;

EID: 84901249399     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/379437.379488     Document Type: Conference Paper

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