Machine Learning and Rule-based Approaches to Assertion Classification

Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association

Volumn 16, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 109-115

  Uzuner, Özlem ^a,b,c   Zhang, Xiaoran ^b   Sibanda, Tawanda ^b  

^a STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^b MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c MIDDLE EAST TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; ASSERTIVENESS; CLASSIFICATION ALGORITHM; HEALTH STATUS; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; MACHINE LEARNING; MEDICAL DOCUMENTATION; MEDICAL RECORD; PROBLEM IDENTIFICATION; SEMANTICS;

EID: 57149137175     PISSN: 10675027     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1197/jamia.M2950     Document Type: Article

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