Improving readability of Swedish electronic health records through lexical simplification: First results

Proceedings of the 3rd Workshop on Predicting and Improving Text Readability for Target Reader Populations, PITR 2014 at the 14th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics, EACL 2014

Volumn , Issue , 2014, Pages 74-83

  Grigonyte, Gintare ^a   Kvist, Maria ^a,b   Velupillai, Sumithra ^a   Wirén, Mats ^a  

^a STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS;

ACROSS TIME; HEALTH CARE PROFESSIONALS; MEDICAL HISTORY; MEDICAL RECORD; SWEDISHS;

RECORDS MANAGEMENT;

EID: 85119252366     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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