Detection of sentence boundaries and abbreviations in clinical narratives.

Journal: BMC medical informatics and decision making

Published Date: Jun 15, 2015

Abstract

BACKGROUND: In Western languages the period character is highly ambiguous, due to its double role as sentence delimiter and abbreviation marker. This is particularly relevant in clinical free-texts characterized by numerous anomalies in spelling, punctuation, vocabulary and with a high frequency of short forms.

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Markus Kreuzthaler

Institute of Medical Informatics, Statistics, and Documentation, Medical University of Graz, Austria.
Stefan Schulz

Institute for Medical Informatics, Statistics and Documentation, Medical University of Graz, Austria.

Keywords

Abbreviations as Topic Humans Information Storage and Retrieval Machine Learning Medical Records Systems, Computerized Narration Natural Language Processing

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Detection of sentence boundaries and abbreviations in clinical narratives.

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