Active learning reduces annotation time for clinical concept extraction.

Journal: International journal of medical informatics
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Abstract

OBJECTIVE: To investigate: (1) the annotation time savings by various active learning query strategies compared to supervised learning and a random sampling baseline, and (2) the benefits of active learning-assisted pre-annotations in accelerating the manual annotation process compared to de novo annotation.

Authors

  • Mahnoosh Kholghi
    Australian e-Health Research Centre, CSIRO, Brisbane, QLD, Australia.
  • Laurianne Sitbon
    Science and Engineering Faculty, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane 4000, Queensland, Australia.
  • Guido Zuccon
    Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, QLD, Australia.
  • Anthony Nguyen
    Australian e-Health Research Centre, CSIRO, Brisbane, QLD, Australia.