Disambiguation of Biomedical Abbreviations

BioNLP 2009 - Biomedical Natural Language Processing Workshop, BioNLP 2009 - held in conjunction with 2009 Annual Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies, NAACL-HLT 2009 - Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 71-79

  Stevenson, Mark ^a   Guo, Yikun ^a   Al Amri, Abdulaziz ^a   Gaizauskas, Robert ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

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Indexed keywords

NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS;

BIOMEDICAL DOCUMENTS; BIOMEDICAL DOMAIN; DOCUMENT RETRIEVAL; KNOWLEDGE SOURCES; LANGUAGE UNDERSTANDING; MEDLINE; WORD SENSE DISAMBIGUATION; WORD SENSE DISAMBIGUATION SYSTEMS;

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EID: 84942676596     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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