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LHNCBC-2003-056
Interpreting Hypernymic Propositions in an Online Medical Encyclopedia
Fiszman M, Rindflesch TC, Kilicoglu H
Proc. AMIA Symposium. 2003 Nov;:840.
Interpretation of Semantic propositions from biomedical 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 Medicine's MEDLINEplus Website.
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