Normalizing acronyms and abbreviations to aid patient understanding of clinical texts: ShARe/CLEF eHealth Challenge 2013, Task 2.

Journal: Journal of biomedical semantics
Published Date: Jul 1, 2016

Abstract

BACKGROUND: The ShARe/CLEF eHealth challenge lab aims to stimulate development of natural language processing and information retrieval technologies to aid patients in understanding their clinical reports. In clinical text, acronyms and abbreviations, also referenced as short forms, can be difficult for patients to understand. For one of three shared tasks in 2013 (Task 2), we generated a reference standard of clinical short forms normalized to the Unified Medical Language System. This reference standard can be used to improve patient understanding by linking to web sources with lay descriptions of annotated short forms or by substituting short forms with a more simplified, lay term.

Authors

  • Danielle L Mowery
    Biomedical Informatics, University of Utah School of Medicine, Salt Lake City, UT.
  • Brett R South
    University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah, USA.
  • Lee Christensen
    Department of Biomedical Informatics, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT.
  • Jianwei Leng
  • Laura-Maria Peltonen
    Nursing Science, University of Turku, and Turku University Hospital, Turku, Finland.
  • Sanna Salanterä
    Nursing Science, University of Turku, and Turku University Hospital, Turku, Finland.
  • Hanna Suominen
    NICTA, The Australian National University, and University of Canberra, Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia.
  • David Martinez
    The University of Melbourne, Australia.
  • Sumithra Velupillai
    Department of Computer and Systems Sciences (DSV), Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden; Department of Biomedical Informatics, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT.
  • Noémie Elhadad
    Biomedical Informatics, Columbia University, New York, NY, USA.
  • Guergana Savova
    Boston Children's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.
  • Sameer Pradhan
    Boston Children's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.
  • Wendy W Chapman
    School of Medicine, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah, US.

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