Clinical Abbreviation Disambiguation Using Neural Word Embeddings

ACL-IJCNLP 2015 - BioNLP 2015: Workshop on Biomedical Natural Language Processing, Proceedings of the Workshop

Volumn , Issue , 2015, Pages 171-176

  Wu, Yonghui ^a   Xu, Jun ^a   Zhang, Yaoyun ^a   Xu, Hua ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

SUPPORT VECTOR MACHINES;

EMBEDDINGS; PERFORMANCE; STATE-OF-THE-ART PERFORMANCE; SUPPORT VECTORS MACHINE; UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA; VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY; WORD SENSE DISAMBIGUATION; WORD SENSE DISAMBIGUATION SYSTEMS;

NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS;

EID: 85123628831     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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