Assertion modeling and its role in clinical phenotype identification

Journal of Biomedical Informatics

Volumn 46, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 68-74

  Bejan, Cosmin Adrian ^a   Vanderwende, Lucy ^a,b   Xia, Fei ^a   Yetisgen Yildiz, Meliha ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b MICROSOFT RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

Assertion classification; Clinical information extraction; Natural language processing; Pneumonia identification; Statistical feature selection

Indexed keywords

CHEST PAIN; CLINICAL INFORMATION; CLINICAL RECORDS; EMPIRICAL STUDIES; MEDICAL CONCEPTS; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING; PHENOTYPE IDENTIFICATION; REAL-WORLD APPLICATION; SEMANTIC PROPERTIES; STATISTICAL FEATURES;

NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS; SEMANTICS;

TEXT PROCESSING;

ARTICLE; ASSERTIVENESS; EMPIRICISM; ERROR; INTUITION; MEDICAL INFORMATION; MEDICAL RECORD; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEMANTICS;

HUMANS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; PHENOTYPE; PNEUMONIA;

EID: 84873102400     PISSN: 15320464     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jbi.2012.09.001     Document Type: Article

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