Parsing clinical text using the state-of-the-art deep learning based parsers: a systematic comparison.

Journal: BMC medical informatics and decision making
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Abstract

BACKGROUND: A shareable repository of clinical notes is critical for advancing natural language processing (NLP) research, and therefore a goal of many NLP researchers is to create a shareable repository of clinical notes, that has breadth (from multiple institutions) as well as depth (as much individual data as possible).

Authors

  • Yaoyun Zhang
    Alibaba Damo Academy, 969 West Wen Yi Road, Yu Hang District, Hangzhou, Zhejiang, China.
  • Firat Tiryaki
    School of Biomedical Informatics, The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Houston, TX, USA.
  • Min Jiang
    Eli Lilly and Company, Indianapolis, IN, United States.
  • Hua Xu
    Department of Urology, Tongji Hospital, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China.