Assessment of commercial NLP engines for medication information extraction from dictated clinical notes

International Journal of Medical Informatics

Volumn 78, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 284-291

  Jagannathan, V ^b   Mullett, Charles J ^a   Arbogast, James G ^a   Halbritter, Kevin A ^a   Yellapragada, Deepthi ^a   Regulapati, Sushmitha ^a   Bandaru, Pavani ^a  

^a WEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b MedQuist Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

Medication extraction; Natural language processing (NLP); Text mining

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATED EXTRACTIONS; COMPARISON STANDARDS; DISCHARGE SUMMARIES; DOSING FREQUENCIES; F MEASURES; GOLD STANDARDS; HUMAN INTERVENTIONS; INFORMATION EXTRACTIONS; MEDICATION EXTRACTION; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING (NLP); REVIEW PROCESS; TEXT MINING;

AUTOMATION; COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS; STANDARDS;

NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS;

ARTICLE; AUTOMATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA EXTRACTION; GOLD STANDARD; MEDICAL INFORMATION; MEDICAL LITERATURE; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

AUTOMATION; DRUG INFORMATION SERVICES; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING;

EID: 60949110325     PISSN: 13865056     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijmedinf.2008.08.006     Document Type: Article

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