MetaMap Lite: An evaluation of a new Java implementation of MetaMap

Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association

Volumn 24, Issue 4, 2017, Pages 841-844

  Demner Fushman, Dina ^a   Rogers, Willie J ^a   Aronson, Alan R ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

Algorithms; Natural language processing; Software design; Software validation; Unified medical language system

Indexed keywords

CLINICAL TRIAL; EXTRACTION; HUMAN; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING; RECALL; SOFTWARE DESIGN; SOFTWARE VALIDATION; UNIFIED MEDICAL LANGUAGE SYSTEM; VELOCITY; WORD PROCESSING; ALGORITHM; COMPARATIVE STUDY; EVALUATION STUDY; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; PROCEDURES; SOFTWARE;

ALGORITHMS; INFORMATION STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING; SOFTWARE; UNIFIED MEDICAL LANGUAGE SYSTEM;

EID: 85026417983     PISSN: 10675027     EISSN: 1527974X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/jamia/ocw177     Document Type: Article

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