Thesaurus-based hierarchical semantic grouping of medical terms in information extraction

Studies in Health Technology and Informatics

Volumn 228, Issue , 2017, Pages 446-450

  Lassoued, Yassine ^a   Deleris, Léa ^a  

^a IBM RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

Information extraction; Semantic grouping of medical terms; UMLS

Indexed keywords

BAYESIAN NETWORKS; COMPLEX NETWORKS; DATA MINING; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; MEDICAL EDUCATION; MEDICAL INFORMATICS; SEMANTICS; THESAURI;

DEPENDENCE GRAPHS; MEDICAL TERMS; RISK INFORMATION; SEMANTIC APPROACH; SEMANTIC GROUPING; UMLS; WEB SYSTEM;

MEDICAL INFORMATION SYSTEMS;

BAYESIAN NETWORK; CONFERENCE PAPER; EXTRACTION; LINGUISTICS; MEDLINE; UNIFIED MEDICAL LANGUAGE SYSTEM; BAYES THEOREM; CONTROLLED VOCABULARY; HUMAN; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; PROCEDURES; SEMANTICS;

BAYES THEOREM; HUMANS; INFORMATION STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL; PUBMED; SEMANTICS; UNIFIED MEDICAL LANGUAGE SYSTEM; VOCABULARY, CONTROLLED;

EID: 85021308771     PISSN: 09269630     EISSN: 18798365     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.3233/978-1-61499-678-1-446     Document Type: Conference Paper

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