Main description:

Today, there is an intense interest for bio natural language processing (NLP) creating a need among researchers, academicians, and practitioners for a comprehensive publication of articles in this area. ""Information Retrieval in Biomedicine: Natural Language Processing for Knowledge Integration"" provides relevant theoretical frameworks and the latest empirical research findings in this area according to a linguistic granularity. As a critical mass of advanced knowledge, this book presents original applications, going beyond existing publications while opening up the road for a broader use of NLP in biomedicine.

Contents:

Automatic alignment of medical terminologies; Biomedical information extraction; Biomedical terminological resources for information retrieval; Cross-language information retrieval; Extracting patient case profiles; Knowledge integration in biomedicine; Lexical enrichment of biomedical ontology; Lexical granularity for automatic indexing; Medical information retrieval systems; Natural language processing; Ontological knowledge management; Participative analysis and language engineering; Word sense disambiguation in biomedical applications.