The interaction of domain knowledge and linguistic structure in natural language processing: interpreting hypernymic propositions in biomedical text

• Published in: Journal of biomedical informatics Vol. 36; no. 6; pp. 462 - 477
• Main Authors: Rindflesch, Thomas C, Fiszman, Marcelo
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States Elsevier Inc 01.12.2003
• Subjects: Abstracting and Indexing as Topic - methods; Algorithms; Artificial Intelligence; Database Management Systems; Databases, Factual; Information extraction; Information Storage and Retrieval - methods; Knowledge representation; Linguistics; National Library of Medicine (U.S.); Natural Language Processing; Semantic processing; Semantics; Subject Headings; Terminology as Topic; Unified Medical Language System; United States; United States; Semantic processing; Natural language processing; Information extraction; Knowledge representation

Interpretation of semantic propositions in free-text documents such as MEDLINE citations would provide valuable support for biomedical applications, and several approaches to semantic interpretation are being pursued in the biomedical informatics community. In this paper, we describe a methodology f...