International Journal of Medical Informatics
Volume 78, Issue 12 , Pages e7-e12 , December 2009

Towards automated processing of clinical Finnish: Sublanguage analysis and a rule-based parser

  • Veronika Laippala

      Affiliations

    • Department of Information Technology,University of Turku, Joukahaisenkatu 3-5, 20520 Turku, Finland
    • Department of French Studies, University of Turku, Henrikink. 2, 20014 Turku, Finland
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author at: Department of French Studies, University of Turku, Henrikink. 2, 20014 Turku, Finland. Tel.: +358 407782814.
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  • Filip Ginter

      Affiliations

    • Department of Information Technology,University of Turku, Joukahaisenkatu 3-5, 20520 Turku, Finland
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  • Sampo Pyysalo

      Affiliations

    • Turku Centre for Computer Science (TUCS), University of Turku, Joukahaisenkatu 3-5, 20520 Turku, Finland
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  • Tapio Salakoski

      Affiliations

    • Department of Information Technology,University of Turku, Joukahaisenkatu 3-5, 20520 Turku, Finland
    • Turku Centre for Computer Science (TUCS), University of Turku, Joukahaisenkatu 3-5, 20520 Turku, Finland

Received 31 October 2008 ,Revised 28 January 2009 ,Accepted 10 February 2009.

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PII: S1386-5056(09)00020-3

doi: 10.1016/j.ijmedinf.2009.02.005

International Journal of Medical Informatics
Volume 78, Issue 12 , Pages e7-e12 , December 2009