Automatic extraction of cause-effect information from medical abstracts

• Main Author: Niu, Yun.
• Other Authors: Chan, Syin
• Format: Theses and Dissertations
• Published: 2008
• Subjects: DRNTU::Engineering::Computer science and engineering::Information systems::Information storage and retrieval; DRNTU::Engineering::Computer science and engineering::Computing methodologies::Artificial intelligence; DRNTU::Engineering::Computer science and engineering::Computing methodologies::Pattern recognition
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10356/2409
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

This study seeks to develop an information extraction system focusing on cause-effect information. The system is developed to make use of linguistic clues to identify and extract cause-effect information that is explicitly expressed in text. The approach adopted is the pattern matching and slot fill...