Challenges in clinical natural language processing for automated disorder normalization

Journal of Biomedical Informatics

Volumn 57, Issue , 2015, Pages 28-37

  Leaman, Robert ^a   Khare, Ritu ^a   Lu, Zhiyong ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

Electronic health records; Information extraction; Natural language processing

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS; ERROR ANALYSIS; ERRORS; INFORMATION DISSEMINATION; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; LEARNING ALGORITHMS; LEARNING SYSTEMS; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS; OPEN SOURCE SOFTWARE; OPEN SYSTEMS; PUBLISHING; RECORDS MANAGEMENT; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH; CONDITIONAL RANDOM FIELD; ELECTRONIC HEALTH RECORD; NAMED ENTITY RECOGNITION; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING; NORMALIZATION ERRORS; NORMALIZATION METHODS; WIDE-RANGING APPLICATIONS;

C (PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE);

ARTICLE; AUTOMATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA ANALYSIS; DATA EXTRACTION; DATA PROCESSING; ERROR; HUMAN; LINEAR SYSTEM; MACHINE LEARNING; MEDICAL TERMINOLOGY; NAMED ENTITY RECOGNITION; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBLICATION; CONTROLLED VOCABULARY; ELECTRONIC HEALTH RECORD; SOFTWARE; VERBAL COMMUNICATION;

ELECTRONIC HEALTH RECORDS; HUMANS; MACHINE LEARNING; NARRATION; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING; SOFTWARE; VOCABULARY, CONTROLLED;

EID: 84949496799     PISSN: 15320464     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jbi.2015.07.010     Document Type: Article

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