Extracting PICO sentences from clinical trial reports using supervised distant supervision

Journal of Machine Learning Research

Volumn 17, Issue , 2016, Pages 1-25

  Wallace, Byron C ^a   Kuiper, Joël ^b   Sharma, Aakash ^c   Zhu, Mingxi ^d   Marshall, Iain J ^e  

^a Northeastern University   (United States)

^b Doctor Evidence LLC   (United States)

^c The University of Texas at Austin   (United States)

^d University of Texas at Austin   (United States)

^e KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Data extraction; Distant supervision; Evidence based medicine; Natural language processing; Text mining

Indexed keywords

EXTRACTION; LEARNING ALGORITHMS; LEARNING SYSTEMS; LINGUISTICS; MEDICAL APPLICATIONS; MEDICINE; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS;

CLINICAL TRIAL; DATA EXTRACTION; DISTANT SUPERVISION; EVIDENCE-BASED MEDICINE; MACHINE LEARNING MODELS; SENTENCE LEVEL; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; TEXT MINING;

DATA MINING;

EID: 84989205130     PISSN: 15324435     EISSN: 15337928     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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