Toward a clinical text encoder: pretraining for clinical natural language processing with applications to substance misuse.

Journal: Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association : JAMIA
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Abstract

OBJECTIVE: Our objective is to develop algorithms for encoding clinical text into representations that can be used for a variety of phenotyping tasks.

Authors

  • Dmitriy Dligach
    Department of Public Health Sciences, Stritch School of Medicine, Loyola University Chicago, Maywood, IL.
  • Majid Afshar
    Loyola University Chicago, Chicago, IL.
  • Timothy Miller
    School of Computing and Information Systems, University of Melbourne, Victoria 3010, Australia.