A study of abbreviations in the UMLS

Abbreviations are widely used in medicine. The understanding of abbreviations is important for medical language processing and information retrieval systems. The Unified Medical Language System (UMLS) contains a large number of abbreviations. We hypothesized that extracting and studying the UMLS abb...

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Veröffentlicht in:Proceedings. AMIA Symposium. - 1998. - (2001) vom: 11., Seite 393-7
1. Verfasser: Liu, H (VerfasserIn)
Weitere Verfasser: Lussier, Y A, Friedman, C
Format: Aufsatz
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: 2001
Zugriff auf das übergeordnete Werk:Proceedings. AMIA Symposium
Schlagworte:Evaluation Study Journal Article Research Support, U.S. Gov't, Non-P.H.S. Research Support, U.S. Gov't, P.H.S.
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