A system for de-identifying medical message board text

Proceedings - 9th International Conference on Machine Learning and Applications, ICMLA 2010

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 485-490

  Benton, Adrian ^a   Hill, Shawndra ^b   Ungar, Lyle ^c   Chung, Annie ^a   Leonard, Charles ^a   Freeman, Cristin ^a   Holmes, John H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Conditional random field; De identification; Message boards; Named entity recognition; Natural language processing; Privacy

Indexed keywords

CONDITIONAL RANDOM FIELD; DE-IDENTIFICATION; MESSAGE BOARDS; NAMED ENTITY RECOGNITION; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING; PRIVACY;

CHARACTER RECOGNITION; COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS; DISEASES; LEARNING ALGORITHMS; LEARNING SYSTEMS; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS; OPEN SYSTEMS;

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EID: 79952433263     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICMLA.2010.78     Document Type: Conference Paper

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