Complexities, variations, and errors of numbering within clinical notes: the potential impact on information extraction and cohort-identification

Complexities, variations, and errors of numbering within clinical notes: the potential impact on information extraction and cohort-identification

Abstract Background Numbers and numerical concepts appear frequently in free text clinical notes from electronic health records. Knowledge of the frequent lexical variations of these numerical concepts, and their accurate identification, is important for many information extraction tasks. This paper...

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Main Authors: David A. Hanauer, Qiaozhu Mei, V. G. Vinod Vydiswaran, Karandeep Singh, Zach Landis-Lewis, Chunhua Weng
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2019-04-01
Series:BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making
Subjects:
Lexical variation
Natural language processing
Information retrieval
Online Access:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s12911-019-0784-1

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