Discovering body site and severity modifiers in clinical texts

Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association

Volumn 21, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 448-454

  Dligach, Dmitriy ^a   Bethard, Steven ^b   Becker, Lee ^b   Miller, Timothy ^a   Savova, Guergana K ^a  

^a BOSTON CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANALYTICAL ERROR; ARTICLE; BODY SITE MODIFIER; CLINICAL TEXT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA EXTRACTION; KERNEL METHOD; MEDICAL INFORMATION; NARRATIVE; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING; SEMANTICS; SEVERITY MODIFIER; SUPPORT VECTOR MACHINE; UNIFIED MEDICAL LANGUAGE SYSTEM; ANATOMY; BIOMEDICAL INFORMATICS; ELECTRONIC MEDICAL RECORD; HUMAN; INFORMATION EXTRACTION; RELATION EXTRACTION; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX;

BIOMEDICAL INFORMATICS; INFORMATION EXTRACTION; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING; RELATION EXTRACTION;

ANATOMY; ELECTRONIC HEALTH RECORDS; HUMANS; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SUPPORT VECTOR MACHINES;

EID: 84901834501     PISSN: 10675027     EISSN: 1527974X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/amiajnl-2013-001766     Document Type: Article

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