Knowledge-based biomedical word sense disambiguation: comparison of approaches

<p>Abstract</p> <p>Background</p> <p>Word sense disambiguation (WSD) algorithms attempt to select the proper sense of ambiguous terms in text. Resources like the UMLS provide a reference thesaurus to be used to annotate the biomedical literature. Statistical learning ap...

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Main Authors: Aronson Alan R, Jimeno-Yepes Antonio J
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2010-11-01
Series:BMC Bioinformatics
Online Access:http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2105/11/569