Anaphoric reference in clinical reports: Characteristics of an annotated corpus

Journal of Biomedical Informatics

Volumn 45, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 507-521

  Chapman, Wendy W ^a   Savova, Guergana K ^b   Zheng, Jiaping ^c   Tharp, Melissa ^a   Crowley, Rebecca ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b BOSTON CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

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

Author keywords

Clinical reports; Natural language processing

Indexed keywords

ANAPHORA RESOLUTION; ANAPHORIC REFERENCE; ANAPHORS; AUTOMATED ALGORITHMS; AUTOMATED RESOLUTION; CLINICAL REPORTS; DISCHARGE SUMMARY; EMERGENCY DEPARTMENTS; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING; NOUN PHRASE; RADIOLOGY REPORTS; REAL-WORLD ENTITIES; REFERENCE RESOLUTION; SEMANTIC TYPES; SURGICAL PATHOLOGY;

ALGORITHMS; AUTOMATION; COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS; RADIATION; RADIOLOGY; SEMANTICS;

HEALTH;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; AUTOMATION; EMERGENCY WARD; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; KNOWLEDGE; LANGUAGE PROCESSING; MEDICAL DOCUMENTATION; MEDICAL INFORMATION; NOMENCLATURE; PATHOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOLOGY; REFERENCE DATABASE; SEMANTICS;

ALGORITHMS; DATA MINING; ELECTRONIC HEALTH RECORDS; HUMANS; SEMANTICS;

EID: 84861889356     PISSN: 15320464     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jbi.2012.01.010     Document Type: Article

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