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DSS
2000
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13 years 9 months ago
Exploring the use of concept spaces to improve medical information retrieval
This research investigated the application of techniques successfully used in previous information retrieval research, to the more challenging area of medical informatics. It was ...
Andrea L. Houston, Hsinchun Chen, Bruce R. Schatz,...
ICAI
2007
13 years 11 months ago
Domain Ontology Construction from Biomedical Text
- NLM's Unified Medical Language System (UMLS) is a very large ontology of biomedical and health data. In order to be used effectively for knowledge processing, it needs to be...
Saurav Sahay, Baoli Li, Ernest V. Garcia, Eugene A...
ACL
2008
13 years 11 months ago
An Unsupervised Vector Approach to Biomedical Term Disambiguation: Integrating UMLS and Medline
This paper introduces an unsupervised vector approach to disambiguate words in biomedical text that can be applied to all-word disambiguation. We explore using contextual informat...
Bridget McInnes
AAAI
2010
13 years 11 months ago
Finding Semantic Inconsistencies in UMLS using Answer Set Programming
We introduce a new method to find semantic inconsistencies (i.e., concepts with erroneous synonymity) in the Unified Medical Language System (UMLS). The idea is to identify the in...
Halit Erdogan, Olivier Bodenreider, Esra Erdem
AIRS
2006
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
Text Mining for Medical Documents Using a Hidden Markov Model
Abstract. We propose a semantic tagger that provides high level concept information for phrases in clinical documents. It delineates such information from the statements written by...
Hyeju Jang, Sa-Kwang Song, Sung-Hyon Myaeng
CLEF
2006
Springer
14 years 1 months ago
Inter-media Concept-Based Medical Image Indexing and Retrieval with UMLS at IPAL
Abstract. We promote the use of explicit medical knowledge to solve retrieval of information both visual and textual. For text, this knowledge is a set of concepts from a Meta-thes...
Caroline Lacoste, Jean-Pierre Chevallet, Joo-Hwee ...
DIS
2007
Springer
14 years 4 months ago
Literature Based Discovery Support System and Its Application to Disease Gene Identification
We present an interactive discovery support system, which for a given starting concept of interest, discovers new, potentially meaningful relations with other concepts that have no...
Dimitar Hristovski, Borut Peterlin, Saso Dzeroski,...