Entity recognition in Chinese clinical text using attention-based CNN-LSTM-CRF.

Journal: BMC medical informatics and decision making
Published Date: Apr 4, 2019

Abstract

BACKGROUND: Clinical entity recognition as a fundamental task of clinical text processing has been attracted a great deal of attention during the last decade. However, most studies focus on clinical text in English rather than other languages. Recently, a few researchers have began to study entity recognition in Chinese clinical text.

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  • Buzhou Tang
  • Xiaolong Wang
    Cardiovascular Department, Shuguang Hospital Affiliated to Shanghai University of TCM Shanghai, China.
  • Jun Yan
    Department of Statistics, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT 06269, USA.
  • Qingcai Chen
    Key Laboratory of Network Oriented Intelligent Computation, Harbin Institute of Technology Shenzhen Graduate School, Shenzhen, Guangdong, China.

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