Induced lexico-syntactic patterns improve information extraction from online medical forums

Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association

Volumn 21, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 902-909

  Gupta, Sonal ^a   MacLean, Diana L ^a   Heer, Jeffrey ^a   Manning, Christopher D ^a  

^a Stanford University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACNE; ARTICLE; ASTHMA; BOOK; BREAST CANCER; DATA EXTRACTION; HUMAN; INTERNET; LEARNING; LEXICO SYNTACTIC PATTERN; MEDICAL INFORMATION; NON INSULIN DEPENDENT DIABETES MELLITUS; ONLINE SYSTEM; OTORHINOLARYNGOLOGY; PATIENT AUTHORED TEXT;

MEDICAL ENTITES EXTRACTION; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING; ONLINE HEALTH FORUMS; TEXT MINING;

CONSUMER HEALTH INFORMATION; DATA MINING; DIAGNOSIS; DICTIONARIES AS TOPIC; DISEASE; DRUG THERAPY; HEALTH RECORDS, PERSONAL; HUMANS; INTERNET; LINGUISTICS; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING;

EID: 84906312679     PISSN: 10675027     EISSN: 1527974X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/amiajnl-2014-002669     Document Type: Article

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