Online health information semantic search and exploration: Reporting on two prototypes for performing information extraction on both a hospital intranet and the world wide web

Text Mining of Web-Based Medical Content

Volumn , Issue , 2014, Pages 49-73

  Teixeira, António ^a   Ferreira, Liliana ^a   Rodrigues, Mário ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AVEIRO   (Portugal)

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