A supervised framework for resolving coreference in clinical records

Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association

Volumn 19, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 875-882

  Rink, Bryan ^a   Roberts, Kirk ^a   Harabagiu, Sanda M ^a  

^a The University of Texas at Dallas   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; COREFERENCE; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MEDICAL RECORD; PRODUCT RECALL; SUPPORT VECTOR MACHINE; ALGORITHM; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; DATA MINING; ELECTRONIC MEDICAL RECORD; EVALUATION; METHODOLOGY; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING; SEMANTICS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

ALGORITHMS; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; DATA MINING; ELECTRONIC HEALTH RECORDS; HUMANS; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING; SEMANTICS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SUPPORT VECTOR MACHINES;

EID: 84872231546     PISSN: 10675027     EISSN: 1527974X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/amiajnl-2012-000810     Document Type: Article

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