Coreference analysis in clinical notes: a multi-pass sieve with alternate anaphora resolution modules.

Objective: This paper describes the coreference resolution system submitted by Mayo Clinic for the 2011 i2b2/VA/Cincinnati shared task Track 1C. The goal of the task was to construct a system that links the markables corresponding to the same entity.Materials and Methods: The task organizers provide...

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Publicado en:Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association Vol. 19; no. 5; pp. 867 - 875
Autores principales: Jonnalagadda, Siddhartha Reddy, Li, Dingcheng, Sohn, Sunghwan, Wu, Stephen Tze-Inn, Wagholikar, Kavishwar, Torii, Manabu, Liu, Hongfang
Formato: research Journal Article
Publicado: Oxford University Press / USA Sep2012
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          Jonnalagadda, Siddhartha Reddy
          Li, Dingcheng
          Sohn, Sunghwan
          Wu, Stephen Tze-Inn
          Wagholikar, Kavishwar
          Torii, Manabu
          Liu, Hongfang
        affil: Department of Health Sciences Research, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota, USA.
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          Artificial Intelligence
          Data Mining Methods
          Decision Support Systems, Clinical
          Electronic Health Records
          Natural Language Processing
          Algorithms
          Human
          Probability
          Semantics
          Sensitivity and Specificity
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      ab: Objective: This paper describes the coreference resolution system submitted by Mayo Clinic for the 2011 i2b2/VA/Cincinnati shared task Track 1C. The goal of the task was to construct a system that links the markables corresponding to the same entity.Materials and Methods: The task organizers provided progress notes and discharge summaries that were annotated with the markables of treatment, problem, test, person, and pronoun. We used a multi-pass sieve algorithm that applies deterministic rules in the order of preciseness and simultaneously gathers information about the entities in the documents. Our system, MedCoref, also uses a state-of-the-art machine learning framework as an alternative to the final, rule-based pronoun resolution sieve.Results: The best system that uses a multi-pass sieve has an overall score of 0.836 (average of B(3), MUC, Blanc, and CEAF F score) for the training set and 0.843 for the test set.Discussion: A supervised machine learning system that typically uses a single function to find coreferents cannot accommodate irregularities encountered in data especially given the insufficient number of examples. On the other hand, a completely deterministic system could lead to a decrease in recall (sensitivity) when the rules are not exhaustive. The sieve-based framework allows one to combine reliable machine learning components with rules designed by experts.Conclusion: Using relatively simple rules, part-of-speech information, and semantic type properties, an effective coreference resolution system could be designed. The source code of the system described is available at https://sourceforge.net/projects/ohnlp/files/MedCoref.
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