Description of a Rule-based System for the i2b2 Challenge in Natural Language Processing for Clinical Data

Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association

Volumn 16, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 571-575

  Childs, Lois C ^a   Enelow, Robert ^b   Simonsen, Lone ^b   Heintzelman, Norris H ^a   Kowalski, Kimberly M ^a   Taylor, Robert J ^b  

^a LOCKHEED MARTIN   (United States)

^b SAGE Analytica LLC   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLINICAL STUDY; COMORBIDITY; COMPUTER PROGRAM; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MEDICAL INFORMATION SYSTEM; OBESITY;

ALGORITHMS; COMORBIDITY; EXPERT SYSTEMS; HUMANS; INFORMATION STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL; KNOWLEDGE BASES; MEDICAL RECORDS SYSTEMS, COMPUTERIZED; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING; OBESITY; PATTERN RECOGNITION, AUTOMATED;

EID: 67649378446     PISSN: 10675027     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1197/jamia.M3083     Document Type: Article

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