Comparing syntactic complexity in medical and non-medical corpora

With the growing use of Natural Language Processing (NLP) techniques as solutions in Medical Informatics, the need to quickly and efficiently create the knowledge structures used by these systems has grown concurrently. Automatic discovery of a lexicon for use by an NLP system through machine learni...

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Veröffentlicht in:Proceedings. AMIA Symposium. - 1998. - (2001) vom: 11., Seite 90-4
1. Verfasser: Campbell, D A (VerfasserIn)
Weitere Verfasser: Johnson, S B
Format: Aufsatz
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: 2001
Zugriff auf das übergeordnete Werk:Proceedings. AMIA Symposium
Schlagworte:Journal Article Research Support, U.S. Gov't, P.H.S.
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