Synonym set extraction from the biomedical literature by lexical pattern discovery

<p>Abstract</p> <p>Background</p> <p>Although there are a large number of thesauri for the biomedical domain many of them lack coverage in terms and their variant forms. Automatic thesaurus construction based on patterns was first suggested by Hearst <abbrgrp><...

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Main Authors: Collier Nigel, McCrae John
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2008-03-01
Series:BMC Bioinformatics
Online Access:http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2105/9/159