Translational Morphosyntax: Distribution of Negation in Clinical Records and Biomedical Journal Articles.

Journal: Studies in health technology and informatics
Published Date: Jan 1, 2017

Abstract

Prior knowledge of the distributional characteristics of linguistic phenomena can be useful for a variety of language processing tasks. This paper describes the distribution of negation in two types of biomedical texts: scientific journal articles and progress notes. Two types of negation are examined: explicit negation at the syntactic level and affixal negation at the sub-word level. The data show that the distribution of negation is significantly different in the two document types, with explicit negation more frequent in the clinical documents than in the scientific publications and affixal negation more frequent in the journal articles at the type level and token levels. All code is available on GitHub https://github.com/KevinBretonnelCohen/NegationDistribution .

Authors

  • K Bretonnel Cohen
    Computational Bioscience, University of Colorado School of Medicine, Aurora, CO 80045, USA.
  • Foster R Goss
    Department of Emergency Medicine, University of Colorado, Aurora, CO, USA.
  • Pierre Zweigenbaum
  • Lawrence E Hunter
    Computational Bioscience Program and Department of Pharmacology, University of Colorado Denver Anschutz Medical Campus, Aurora, Colorado 80045, USA.

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