title: Interpreting hypernymic propositions in an online medical encyclopedia.
abstract: Interpretation of semantic propositions from bio-medical 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 Medi-cine's MEDLINEplus Website.
authors.affiliation: National Library of Medicine, Bethesda, Maryland 20894, USA.
authors.forename: Marcelo
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Fiszman
authors.forename: Thomas C
authors.initials: TC
authors.lastname: Rindflesch
authors.forename: Halil
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Kilicoglu
mesh_terms: D004690:Encyclopedias as Topic; D049293:MedlinePlus; D009323:Natural Language Processing; D009862:Online Systems; D012660:Semantics; D017432:Unified Medical Language System