Medical WordNet: A new methodology for the construction and validation of information resources for consumer health

COLING 2004 - Proceedings of the 20th International Conference on Computational Linguistics

Volumn , Issue , 2004, Pages

  Smith, Barry ^a,b   Fellbaum, Christiane ^c,d  

^a UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO   (United States)

^b SAARLAND UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^c PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d Berlin Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS; HEALTH; MEDICAL INFORMATION SYSTEMS;

CONSUMER HEALTH INFORMATION; CONSUMER HEALTHS; HEALTH INFORMATION SYSTEMS; INFORMATION RESOURCE; INFORMATION SOURCES; LEXICAL DATABASE; NATURAL LANGUAGES; ONLINE HEALTH INFORMATION; RELEVANT TERMS; WORDNET;

ONTOLOGY;

EID: 85119094314     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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