Biomedical negation scope detection with conditional random fields.

Objective: Negation is a linguistic phenomenon that marks the absence of an entity or event. Negated events are frequently reported in both biological literature and clinical notes. Text mining applications benefit from the detection of negation and its scope. However, due to the complexity of langu...

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Published in:Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association Vol. 17; no. 6; pp. 696 - 702
Main Authors: Agarwal S, Yu H, Agarwal, Shashank, Yu, Hong
Format: research Journal Article
Published: Oxford University Press / USA Nov2010
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