Detecting temporal expressions in medical narratives

International Journal of Medical Informatics

Volumn 82, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 118-127

  Reeves, Ruth M ^a,b   Ong, Ferdo R ^b   Matheny, Michael E ^a,b,c   Denny, Joshua C ^b   Aronsky, Dominik ^b   Gobbel, Glenn T ^a,b   Montella, Diane ^b,d   Speroff, Theodore ^a,b,c   Brown, Steven H ^a,b,d  

^a GERIATRIC RESEARCH EDUCATION AND CLINICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Event sequence; Narration; Natural language processing; Temporal reasoning; TimeML

Indexed keywords

EVENT SEQUENCE; NARRATION; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING; TEMPORAL REASONING; TIMEML;

GRAPHICAL USER INTERFACES;

NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS;

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; COMPUTER PROGRAM; ELECTRONIC MEDICAL RECORD; EVALUATION; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MEDICAL RECORD; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TEMPORAL AWARENESS AND REASONING SYSTEMS FOR QUESTION INTERPRETATION TOOLKIT; TIME;

ELECTRONIC HEALTH RECORDS; HEALTH RECORDS, PERSONAL; NARRATION; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING; PATTERN RECOGNITION, AUTOMATED; SOFTWARE; TIME FACTORS; UNITED STATES; VOCABULARY, CONTROLLED;

EID: 84873057508     PISSN: 13865056     EISSN: 18728243     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijmedinf.2012.04.006     Document Type: Article

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