Foundation, implementation and evaluation of the MorphoSaurus system [Elektronische Ressource] : subword indexing, lexical learning and word sense disambiguation for medical crosslanguage information retrieval / von Kornél Géza Markó

Foundation, Implementation andEvaluation of the MorphoSaurus SystemSubword Indexing, Lexical Learning and Word Sense Disambiguation forMedical Cross-Language Information RetrievalDissertationzur Erlangung des akademischen GradesDoctor philosophiae (Dr. phil.)vorgelegt dem Rat der Philosophischen Fakult¨atder Friedrich-Schiller-Universit¨at JenavonKorn´el G´eza Mark´o, M.A.geboren am 26.08.1971 in StuttgartGutachter:1. Prof. Dr. Udo Hahn (Friedrich-Schiller-Universit¨at Jena)2. Prof. Dr. Ru¨diger Klar (Albert-Ludwigs-Universit¨at Freiburg)3. Prof. Dr. Rainer Hammw¨ohner (Universit¨at Regensburg)Tag des Kolloquiums: 15. Oktober 2008Contents1 Introduction 11.1 Medical Information Systems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31.2 Information Retrieval in Medicine . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41.3 An Interdisciplinary Approach . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61.4 Overview on this Work . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72 A Morphological Perspective on Medical Language Processing 92.1 Medical Linguistics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102.2 Morphological Processes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 112.3 Morphology in Medical Terminology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 122.4 Morphology in Information Retrieval . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 152.5 Medical Morphological Analysis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 162.6 MorphoSaurus . . . . . . . . . .