Implementation and evaluation of a negation tagger in a pipeline-based system for information extraction from pathology reports

Studies in Health Technology and Informatics

Volumn 107, Issue , 2004, Pages 663-667

  Mitchell, Kevin J ^a   Becich, Michael J ^a,b   Berman, Jules J ^c   Chapman, Wendy W ^b,d   Gilbertson, John ^a   Gupta, Dilip ^a   Harrison, James ^a,b,d   Legowski, Elizabeth ^a   Crowley, Rebecca S ^a,b,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

Author keywords

Information Extraction; Natural Language Processing

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS; DATA MINING; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS; PATHOLOGY; PIPELINES; REFINING; SURGERY; OPEN SYSTEMS; PIPELINE PROCESSING SYSTEMS;

DELPHI TECHNIQUE; DISCHARGE SUMMARY; EARLY EVALUATION; LANGUAGE ENGINEERING; OPEN SOURCE ARCHITECTURE; PROCESSING RESOURCES; RADIOLOGY REPORTS; SURGICAL PATHOLOGY; INFORMATION EXTRACTION; LANGUAGE PROCESSING; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING; NATURAL LANGUAGES; SYSTEM EVALUATION;

OPEN SYSTEMS; PATHOLOGY;

ALGORITHM; CONFERENCE PAPER; DELPHI STUDY; EXTRACTION; GOLD STANDARD; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING; PATHOLOGIST; PIPELINE; RADIOLOGY; RECALL; UNIFIED MEDICAL LANGUAGE SYSTEM; ARTICLE; COMPUTER PROGRAM; EVALUATION; HOSPITAL INFORMATION SYSTEM; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; INTERNET; LABORATORY DIAGNOSIS; MEDICAL INFORMATION SYSTEM; MEDICAL RECORD; PATHOLOGY;

ALGORITHMS; CLINICAL LABORATORY INFORMATION SYSTEMS; HUMANS; INFORMATION STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL; INTERNET; MEDICAL RECORDS SYSTEMS, COMPUTERIZED; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING; PATHOLOGY, SURGICAL; SOFTWARE; SPECIMEN HANDLING; UNIFIED MEDICAL LANGUAGE SYSTEM;

EID: 70349677742     PISSN: 09269630     EISSN: 18798365     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.3233/978-1-60750-949-3-663     Document Type: Article

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