Interpreting Hypernymic Propositions in an Online Medical Encyclopedia

نویسندگان

  • Marcelo Fiszman
  • Thomas C. Rindflesch
  • Halil Kilicoglu
چکیده

Interpretation of semantic propositions from bio-medical texts documents would provide valuable support to natural language processing (NLP) applications. We are developing a methodology to interpret a kind of semantic proposition, the hypernymic proposition, in MEDLINE abstracts. In this paper, we expanded the system to identify these structures in a different discourse domain: the Medical Encyclopedia from the National Library of Medi-cine's MEDLINEplus Website.

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عنوان ژورنال:
  • AMIA ... Annual Symposium proceedings. AMIA Symposium

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تاریخ انتشار 2003