Professional language in Swedish clinical text: Linguistic characterization and comparative studies

Nordic Journal of Linguistics

Volumn 37, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 297-323

  Smith, Kelly ^a   Megyesi, Beata ^b   Velupillai, Sumithra ^a   Kvist, Maria ^a,c  

^a STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^c KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Clinical text; Comparative register analysis; Doctor's daily notes; Electronic health records; Medical terminology; Part of speech tagging; Radiology reports

Indexed keywords

EID: 84926659080     PISSN: 03325865     EISSN: 15024717     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0332586514000213     Document Type: Article

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