The big data era: The usefulness of folksonomy for natural language processing.

Journal: Nefrologia
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Abstract

BACKGROUND: A huge amount of clinical data is generated daily and it is usually filed in clinical reports as natural language. Data extraction and further analysis requires reading and manual review of each report, which is a time consuming process. With the aim to test folksonomy to quickly obtain and analyze the information contained in media reports we set up this study.

Authors

  • Laia Sans
    Servicio de Nefrología, Hospital del Mar, Barcelona, Spain.
  • Ismael Vallvé
    Bismart, Barcelona, Spain.
  • Joan Teixidó
    Bismart, Barcelona, Spain.
  • Josep Manel Picas
    Bismart, Barcelona, Spain.
  • Jordi Martínez-Roldán
    Dirección de Innovación y Transformación Digital, Hospital del Mar, Barcelona, Spain.
  • Julio Pascual
    Servicio de Nefrología, Hospital del Mar, Barcelona, Spain. Electronic address: julpascual@gmail.com.