Journal of biomedical semantics
Jul 18, 2021
BACKGROUND: Effective response to public health emergencies, such as we are now experiencing with COVID-19, requires data sharing across multiple disciplines and data systems. Ontologies offer a powerful data sharing tool, and this holds especially f...
Journal of biomedical semantics
Jul 15, 2021
BACKGROUND: Recent advances in representation learning have enabled large strides in natural language understanding; However, verbal reasoning remains a challenge for state-of-the-art systems. External sources of structured, expert-curated verb-relat...
Journal of biomedical semantics
Jul 14, 2021
BACKGROUND: The limited availability of clinical texts for Natural Language Processing purposes is hindering the progress of the field. This article investigates the use of synthetic data for the annotation and automated extraction of family history ...
Journal of biomedical semantics
May 17, 2021
BACKGROUND: Named Entity Recognition is a common task in Natural Language Processing applications, whose purpose is to recognize named entities in textual documents. Several systems exist to solve this task in the biomedical domain, based on Natural ...
Journal of biomedical semantics
Apr 16, 2021
BACKGROUND: Iranian traditional medicine, also known as Persian Medicine, is a holistic school of medicine with a long prolific history. It describes numerous concepts and the relationships between them. However, no unified language system has been p...
Journal of biomedical semantics
Apr 12, 2021
BACKGROUND: Biomedical ontologies contain a wealth of metadata that constitutes a fundamental infrastructural resource for text mining. For several reasons, redundancies exist in the ontology ecosystem, which lead to the same entities being described...
Journal of biomedical semantics
Mar 24, 2021
BACKGROUND: The amount of available data, which can facilitate answering scientific research questions, is growing. However, the different formats of published data are expanding as well, creating a serious challenge when multiple datasets need to be...
Journal of biomedical semantics
Feb 15, 2021
BACKGROUND: Mortality prediction is an important task to achieve smart healthcare, especially for the management of intensive care unit. It can provide a reference for doctors to quickly predict the course of disease and customize early intervention ...
Journal of biomedical semantics
Dec 21, 2020
BACKGROUND: The successful determination and analysis of phenotypes plays a key role in the diagnostic process, the evaluation of risk factors and the recruitment of participants for clinical and epidemiological studies. The development of computable...
Journal of biomedical semantics
Nov 16, 2020
BACKGROUND: Free-text descriptions in electronic health records (EHRs) can be of interest for clinical research and care optimization. However, free text cannot be readily interpreted by a computer and, therefore, has limited value. Natural Language ...