Entity and relation extraction from clinical case reports of COVID-19: a natural language processing approach.

Journal: BMC medical informatics and decision making
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Abstract

BACKGROUND: Extracting relevant information about infectious diseases is an essential task. However, a significant obstacle in supporting public health research is the lack of methods for effectively mining large amounts of health data.

Authors

  • Shaina Raza
    Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON M5T 3M7, Canada.
  • Brian Schwartz
    University of Trier, Germany.