| Year: 2005 | 
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| LHNCBC-2005-049 |
| Semantic Interpretation for the Biomedical Research Literature |
| Rindflesch TC, Fiszman M, Bisharah L |
| In Hsinchun C, Fuller S, Friedman C, Hersh w (eds.) Medical Informatics: Knowledge Management and Data Mining in Biomedicine. Springer: New York, pp. 399-422, 2005. |
| Natural language processing is increasingly used to support biomedicalapplications that manipulate information rather than documents. Examplesinclude automatic summarization, question answering, and literaturebased scientific discovery. Semantic processing is a method of automaticlanguage analysis that identifies concepts and relationships to representdocument content. The identification of this information depends on structured knowledge, and in the biomedical domain, one such resource isthe Unified Medical Language System. After providing some linguistic background, we discuss several semantic interpretation systems being developed in biomedicine. Finally, we briefly investigate two applicationsthat exploit semantic information in MEDLINE citations; one focuses on automatic summarization and the other is directed at information extraction for molecular biology research. |
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