Word sense disambiguation in the clinical domain: A comparison of knowledge-rich and knowledgepoor unsupervised methods

Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association

Volumn 21, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 842-849

  Chasin, Rachel ^a   Rumshisky, Anna ^b   Uzuner, Ozlem ^c   Szolovits, Peter ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b University of Massachusetts Lowell   (United States)

^c STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; BAYES THEOREM; DATA BASE; KNOWLEDGE BASE; LINGUISTICS; MEDICAL ONTOLOGY; MULTIPARAMETER INTELLIGENT MONITORING IN INTENSIVE CARE DATABASE; SEMANTICS; SUPPORT VECTOR MACHINE; SYSTEMATIZED NOMENCLATURE OF MEDICINE; TOPIC MODELING TECHNIQUE; UNIFIED MEDICAL LANGUAGE SYSTEM; WORD SENSE DISAMBIGUATION;

CLINICAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING; MEDICAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING; WORD SENSE DISAMBIGUATION;

BAYES THEOREM; DATA MINING; HUMANS; KNOWLEDGE BASES; LINGUISTICS; MEDICAL INFORMATICS; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING; SYSTEMATIZED NOMENCLATURE OF MEDICINE; TERMINOLOGY AS TOPIC; UNIFIED MEDICAL LANGUAGE SYSTEM;

EID: 84906309468     PISSN: 10675027     EISSN: 1527974X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/amiajnl-2013-002133     Document Type: Article

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