A Web Application to Support Consumer Health Vocabulary Development
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چکیده
We describe a Web application that supports collaborative development of a consumer health vocabulary. It performs text analyses and enables distributed human review. It also provides on-the-fly summary reports and facilitates the generation of a final vocabulary based on the results of the review.
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ورودعنوان ژورنال:
- AMIA ... Annual Symposium proceedings. AMIA Symposium
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تاریخ انتشار 2005