Induced lexico-syntactic patterns improve information extraction from online medical forums.

Objective: To reliably extract two entity types, symptoms and conditions (SCs), and drugs and treatments (DTs), from patient-authored text (PAT) by learning lexico-syntactic patterns from data annotated with seed dictionaries.Background and Significance: Despite the increasing quantity of PAT (eg, o...

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Published in:Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association Vol. 21; no. 5; pp. 902 - 910
Main Authors: Gupta, Sonal, MacLean, Diana L, Heer, Jeffrey, Manning, Christopher D
Format: research Journal Article
Published: Oxford University Press / USA Sep2014
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