Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association : JAMIA
Apr 29, 2015
OBJECTIVE: Analysis of narrative (text) data from electronic health records (EHRs) can improve population-scale phenotyping for clinical and genetic research. Currently, selection of text features for phenotyping algorithms is slow and laborious, req...
BACKGROUND: Controlled vocabularies such as the Unified Medical Language System (UMLS) and Medical Subject Headings (MeSH) are widely used for biomedical natural language processing (NLP) tasks. However, the standard terminology in such collections s...
INTRODUCTION: The ambiguity of biomedical abbreviations is one of the challenges in biomedical text mining systems. In particular, the handling of term variants and abbreviations without nearby definitions is a critical issue. In this study, we adopt...
INTRODUCTION: This article explores how measures of semantic similarity and relatedness are impacted by the semantic groups to which the concepts they are measuring belong. Our goal is to determine if there are distinctions between homogeneous compar...
Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association : JAMIA
Aug 21, 2014
OBJECTIVE: The ShARe/CLEF eHealth 2013 Evaluation Lab Task 1 was organized to evaluate the state of the art on the clinical text in (i) disorder mention identification/recognition based on Unified Medical Language System (UMLS) definition (Task 1a) a...
Studies in health technology and informatics
Aug 7, 2025
Understanding health concepts in free text is an important task in biomedical NLP. Being able to map the extracted concepts to unique concept identifiers can facilitate integration of and interoperability across biomedical informatics applications. A...
Studies in health technology and informatics
Aug 7, 2025
Antonyms are words that have opposite or contrasting meanings in a specific domain. For example, "increase" is the opposite of "decrease" in the domain of "quantity". Antonyms play an important role in NLP applications to improve performance. This pa...
OBJECTIVE: The full fine-tuning paradigm becomes impractical when applying pre-trained models to downstream tasks due to significant computational and storage costs. Parameter-efficient fine-tuning (PEFT) methods can alleviate the issue. However, sol...
Studies in health technology and informatics
May 15, 2025
Medical Entity Linking (MEL) refers to the task of automatically detecting and codifying medical concepts, which is an important preprocessing step for exploiting unstructured medical reports. SapBERT is an efficient MEL method for the English langua...
Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association : JAMIA
Apr 1, 2025
OBJECTIVES: Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly utilized in healthcare, transforming medical practice through advanced language processing capabilities. However, the evaluation of LLMs predominantly relies on human qualitative assessment, w...
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