A common type system for clinical natural language processing

Journal of Biomedical Semantics

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Wu, Stephen T ^a   Kaggal, Vinod C ^a   Dligach, Dmitriy ^b   Masanz, James J ^a   Chen, Pei ^b   Becker, Lee ^c   Chapman, Wendy W ^d   Savova, Guergana K ^b   Liu, Hongfang ^a   Chute, Christopher G ^a  

^a MAYO CLINIC   (United States)

^b BOSTON CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Clinical Element Models; Clinical information extraction; Common type system; Natural Language Processing; Standards and interoperability

Indexed keywords

EID: 84885840953     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411480     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/2041-1480-4-1     Document Type: Article

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