کد مقاله کد نشریه سال انتشار مقاله انگلیسی نسخه تمام متن
518439 867588 2013 7 صفحه PDF دانلود رایگان
عنوان انگلیسی مقاله ISI
Extraction of events and temporal expressions from clinical narratives
موضوعات مرتبط
مهندسی و علوم پایه مهندسی کامپیوتر نرم افزارهای علوم کامپیوتر
پیش نمایش صفحه اول مقاله
Extraction of events and temporal expressions from clinical narratives
چکیده انگلیسی


• Standard approaches for event extraction consider each event in isolation.
• We design a sentence-level inference strategy for event extraction.
• We use MeSH and SNOMED CT to design clinical descriptors.
• We give a robust algorithm for date extraction.
• Several rules were developed to extract and normalize complex temporal expressions.

This paper addresses an important task of event and timex extraction from clinical narratives in context of the i2b2 2012 challenge. State-of-the-art approaches for event extraction use a multi-class classifier for finding the event types. However, such approaches consider each event in isolation. In this paper, we present a sentence-level inference strategy which enforces consistency constraints on attributes of those events which appear close to one another. Our approach is general and can be used for other tasks as well. We also design novel features like clinical descriptors (from medical ontologies) which encode a lot of useful information about the concepts. For timex extraction, we adapt a state-of-the-art system, HeidelTime, for use in clinical narratives and also develop several rules which complement HeidelTime. We also give a robust algorithm for date extraction. For the event extraction task, we achieved an overall F1 score of 0.71 for determining span of the events along with their attributes. For the timex extraction task, we achieved an F1 score of 0.79 for determining span of the temporal expressions. We present detailed error analysis of our system and also point out some factors which can help to improve its accuracy.

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ناشر
Database: Elsevier - ScienceDirect (ساینس دایرکت)
Journal: Journal of Biomedical Informatics - Volume 46, Supplement, December 2013, Pages S13–S19
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