Semantic analysis of free text and its application on automatically assigning ICD-9-CM codes to patient records

Proceedings of the 9th IEEE International Conference on Cognitive Informatics, ICCI 2010

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 68-74

  Chen, Ping ^a   Barrera, Araly ^a   Rhodes, Chris ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON DOWNTOWN   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL ARKANSAS   (United States)

Author keywords

Automatic diagnosis; Dependency parsing; Natural Language Processing; Semantic analysis

Indexed keywords

ANALYTIC TECHNIQUE; AUTOMATIC DIAGNOSIS; CINCINNATI; CLINICAL RECORDS; CODE ASSIGNMENTS; COMPUTATIONAL MEDICINE; DEPENDENCY PARSING; DISEASE DIAGNOSIS; FREE TEXTS; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING; NATURAL LANGUAGES; PATIENT RECORD; REAL-WORLD; SEMANTIC ANALYSIS; SEMANTIC MATCHING; SEMANTICS ANALYSIS; TRAINING DATA SETS;

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS; DIAGNOSIS; INFORMATION SCIENCE; SEMANTICS;

NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS;

EID: 78649839345     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/COGINF.2010.5599783     Document Type: Conference Paper

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