Towards very large ontologies for medical language processing

Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation, LREC 2002

Volumn , Issue , 2002, Pages 2137-2144

  Hahn, Udo ^a   Schulz, Stefan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DATA DESCRIPTION; KNOWLEDGE BASED SYSTEMS;

AUTOMATICALLY GENERATED; CONCEPT DEFINITIONS; CONCEPTUAL KNOWLEDGE; DOMAIN EXPERTS; FORMAL DESCRIPTION; INTEGRITY CHECKING; MEDICAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING; ONTOLOGY ENGINEERING METHODOLOGIES;

ONTOLOGY;

EID: 85037148324     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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