A convolutional route to abbreviation disambiguation in clinical text.

Journal: Journal of biomedical informatics
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Abstract

OBJECTIVE: Abbreviations sense disambiguation is a special case of word sense disambiguation. Machine learning methods based on neural networks showed promising results for word sense disambiguation (Festag and Spreckelsen, 2017) [1] and, here we assess their effectiveness for abbreviation sense disambiguation.

Authors

  • Venkata Joopudi
    IBM Research, Yorktown Heights, USA.
  • Bharath Dandala
    IBM Research, Yorktown Heights, USA.
  • Murthy Devarakonda
    IBM Research, Yorktown Heights, USA. Electronic address: mvd@acm.org.