SBIR/STTR Research Award
NATURAL LANGUAGE RETRIEVAL FOR MEDICAL TEXTS
Award amount
$50,000Program and phase
SBIR · Phase IAward year
1992Award details
- Awarding agency
- Department of Health and Human Services
- Branch
- Not reported
- Recipient company
- Sychronetics, Inc.
- Proposal award date
- Not reported
- Contract end date
- Not reported
- UEI
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- Solicitation number
- Not reported
- Topic code
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Research abstract
THE PURPOSE OF CONQUEST IS TO PROVIDE AN INTEGRATED NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING (NLP) AND INFORMATION RETRIEVAL (IR) SYSTEM, THAT OPERATES IN AN ENVIRONMENT SUITABLE FOR INTEGRATED USE IN MOST COMMERCIAL ENVIRONMENTS. THE INTEGRATED NLP/IR SYSTEM WIL UTILIZE A PARSER WITH WORD SENSE DISAMBIGUATION, MORPHOLOGICAL ADVANCE THE STATE OF THE ART IN TEXT RETRIEVAL FROM THE STATISTICAL METHODS OF THE EIGHTIES TO THE NLP OF THE NINETIES. THE MAIN BENEFITS OF THE SYSTEM ARE ACCURACY, EASE OF USE AND ENHANCED FUNCTIONALITY.
Technology keywords
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