A flexible framework for deriving assertions from electronic medical records.

Objective: This paper describes natural-language-processing techniques for two tasks: identification of medical concepts in clinical text, and classification of assertions, which indicate the existence, absence, or uncertainty of a medical problem. Because so many resources are available for process...

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Published in:Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association Vol. 18; no. 5; pp. 568 - 574
Main Authors: Roberts K, Harabagiu SM, Roberts, Kirk, Harabagiu, Sanda M
Format: research Journal Article
Published: Oxford University Press / USA Sep2011
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