Using text mining techniques to extract phenotypic information from the PhenoCHF corpus.
Journal:
BMC medical informatics and decision making
Published Date:
Jun 15, 2015
Abstract
BACKGROUND: Phenotypic information locked away in unstructured narrative text presents significant barriers to information accessibility, both for clinical practitioners and for computerised applications used for clinical research purposes. Text mining (TM) techniques have previously been applied successfully to extract different types of information from text in the biomedical domain. They have the potential to be extended to allow the extraction of information relating to phenotypes from free text.