Annotation of epilepsy clinic letters for natural language processing.

Journal: Journal of biomedical semantics
PMID: 39277770

Abstract

BACKGROUND: Natural language processing (NLP) is increasingly being used to extract structured information from unstructured text to assist clinical decision-making and aid healthcare research. The availability of expert-annotated documents for the development and validation of NLP applications is limited. We created synthetic clinical documents to address this, and to validate the Extraction of Epilepsy Clinical Text version 2 (ExECTv2) NLP pipeline.

Authors

  • Beata Fonferko-Shadrach
    Neurology and Molecular Neuroscience Group, Institute of Life Science, Swansea University Medical School, Swansea University, Swansea, UK.
  • Huw Strafford
    Neurology and Molecular Neuroscience Group, Institute of Life Science, Swansea University Medical School, Swansea University, Swansea, UK.
  • Carys Jones
    Swansea University Medical School, Swansea University, Swansea, Wales, UK.
  • Russell A Khan
    Swansea University Medical School, Swansea University, Swansea, Wales, UK.
  • Sharon Brown
    Neurology Department, Swansea Bay University Health Board, Swansea, Wales, UK.
  • Jenny Edwards
    Neurology Department, Swansea Bay University Health Board, Swansea, Wales, UK.
  • Jonathan Hawken
    Neurology Department, Swansea Bay University Health Board, Swansea, Wales, UK.
  • Luke E Shrimpton
    Neurology Department, Swansea Bay University Health Board, Swansea, Wales, UK.
  • Catharine P White
    Swansea University Medical School, Swansea University, Swansea, Wales, UK.
  • Robert Powell
    Swansea University Medical School, Swansea University, Swansea, Wales, UK.
  • Inder M S Sawhney
    Swansea University Medical School, Swansea University, Swansea, Wales, UK.
  • William O Pickrell
    Swansea University Medical School, Swansea University, Swansea, Wales, UK.
  • Arron S Lacey
    Neurology and Molecular Neuroscience Group, Institute of Life Science, Swansea University Medical School, Swansea University, Swansea, UK.

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