The 1994 Unified Medical Language System Knowledge Sources
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Knowledge representation and indexing using the unified medical language system.
Ontologies and semantic frameworks can be used to improve the accuracy and expressiveness of natural language processing for the purpose of extracting meaning from technical documents. This is especially true when a rich ontology such as the Unified Medical Language System (UMLS) is available. This paper reports on some tools being developed to make this possible and on some experience with a u...
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عنوان ژورنال: Health Libraries Review
سال: 1994
ISSN: 0265-6647
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2532.1994.11301972.x