Automating the generation of lexical patterns for processing free text in clinical documents.

Journal: Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association : JAMIA
Published Date: May 14, 2015

Abstract

OBJECTIVE: Many tasks in natural language processing utilize lexical pattern-matching techniques, including information extraction (IE), negation identification, and syntactic parsing. However, it is generally difficult to derive patterns that achieve acceptable levels of recall while also remaining highly precise.

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  • Frank Meng
  • Craig Morioka
    Medical Imaging Informatics Group, Department of Radiological Sciences, University of California, Los Angeles, CA, USA Department of Radiology, VA Greater Los Angeles Healthcare System, Los Angeles CA, USA.

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