Cascading Classifiers for Named Entity Recognition in Clinical Notes

International Workshop on Biomedical Infromation Extraction, held in conjunction with the International Conference RANLP 2009 - Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 42-49

  Wang, Yefeng ^a   Patrick, Jon ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Classifier Ensemble; Clinical Information Extraction; Machine Learning; Named Entity Recognition; Two Phase Model

Indexed keywords

INTENSIVE CARE UNITS; LEARNING ALGORITHMS; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS; RANDOM PROCESSES; SUPPORT VECTOR MACHINES;

CLASSIFIERS ENSEMBLE; CLINICAL INFORMATION; CLINICAL INFORMATION EXTRACTION; CLINICAL NOTES; F-SCORE; MACHINE LEARNING APPROACHES; MACHINE-LEARNING; NAMED ENTITIES; NAMED ENTITY RECOGNITION; TWO-PHASE MODEL;

CLASSIFICATION (OF INFORMATION);

EID: 85062519288     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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