Artificial intelligence in medicine
May 18, 2021
Electronic health record systems are ubiquitous and the majority of patients' data are now being collected electronically in the form of free text. Deep learning has significantly advanced the field of natural language processing and the self-supervi...
Journal of community psychology
May 18, 2021
Large amounts of text-based data, like study abstracts, often go unanalyzed because the task is laborious. Natural language processing (NLP) uses computer-based algorithms not traditionally implemented in community psychology to effectively and effic...
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 ...
AMIA Joint Summits on Translational Science proceedings. AMIA Joint Summits on Translational Science
May 17, 2021
The exponential growth of public datasets in the era of Big Data demands new solutions for making these resources findable and reusable. Therefore, a scholarly recommender system for public datasets is an important tool in the field of information fi...
AMIA Joint Summits on Translational Science proceedings. AMIA Joint Summits on Translational Science
May 17, 2021
Lack of standardized representation of natural language processing (NLP) components in phenotyping algorithms hinders portability of the phenotyping algorithms and their execution in a high-throughput and reproducible manner. The objective of the stu...
AMIA Joint Summits on Translational Science proceedings. AMIA Joint Summits on Translational Science
May 17, 2021
Natural language is continually changing. Given the prevalence of unstructured, free-text clinical notes in the healthcare domain, understanding the aspects of this change is of critical importance to clinical Natural Language Processing (NLP) system...
AMIA Joint Summits on Translational Science proceedings. AMIA Joint Summits on Translational Science
May 17, 2021
The best evidence concerning comparative treatment effectiveness comes from clinical trials, the results of which are reported in unstructured articles. Medical experts must manually extract information from articles to inform decision-making, which ...
AMIA Joint Summits on Translational Science proceedings. AMIA Joint Summits on Translational Science
May 17, 2021
Adverse drug events (ADEs) are unexpected incidents caused by the administration of a drug or medication. To identify and extract these events, we require information about not just the drug itself but attributes describing the drug (e.g., strength, ...
AMIA Joint Summits on Translational Science proceedings. AMIA Joint Summits on Translational Science
May 17, 2021
Human annotations are the established gold standard for evaluating natural language processing (NLP) methods. The goals of this study are to quantify and qualify the disagreement between human and NLP. We developed an NLP system for annotating clinic...
AMIA Joint Summits on Translational Science proceedings. AMIA Joint Summits on Translational Science
May 17, 2021
Extracting clinical concepts and their relations from clinical narratives is one of the fundamental tasks in clinical natural language processing. Traditional solutions often separate this task into two subtasks with a pipeline architecture, which fi...