Syntactic parsing of clinical text: Guideline and corpus development with handling ill-formed sentences

Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association

Volumn 20, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 1168-1177

  Fan, Jung wei ^a   Yang, Elly W ^a   Jiang, Min ^b   Prasad, Rashmi ^c   Loomis, Richard M ^a   Zisook, Daniel S ^a   Denny, Josh C ^d   Xu, Hua ^b,d   Huang, Yang ^a  

^a Medical Informatics   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MILWAUKEE   (United States)

^d VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; DATA ANALYSIS; GRAMMAR; MEDICAL RECORD; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING; NOMENCLATURE; QUALITY CONTROL PROCEDURES; READING; SEMANTICS; SYNTACTIC PARSING;

ANNOTATION GUIDELINES; CORPUS DEVELOPMENT; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING; SYNTACTIC PARSING;

ELECTRONIC HEALTH RECORDS; GUIDELINES AS TOPIC; LINGUISTICS; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING;

EID: 84886258393     PISSN: 10675027     EISSN: 1527974X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/amiajnl-2013-001810     Document Type: Article

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