Comparing Different Methods for Named Entity Recognition in Portuguese Neurology Text.

Electronic Medical Records (EMRs) are written in an unstructured way, often using natural language. Information Extraction (IE) may be used for acquiring knowledge from such texts, including the automatic recognition of meaningful entities, through models for Named Entity Recognition (NER). However,...

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Publicado en:Journal of Medical Systems Vol. 44; no. 4; pp. 1 - 21
Autores principales: Lopes, Fábio, Teixeira, César, Gonçalo Oliveira, Hugo
Formato: algorithm equations & formulas research tables/charts Journal Article
Publicado: Springer Nature Apr2020
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          Lopes, Fábio
          Teixeira, César
          Gonçalo Oliveira, Hugo
        affil: Center for Informatics and Systems, Department of Informatics Engineering, University of Coimbra, Coimbra, Portugal
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          Natural Language Processing
          Machine Learning
          Neurology
          Electronic Health Records
          Language
          Memory, Short Term
          Deep Learning
          Data Mining
          Word Processing
      ab: Electronic Medical Records (EMRs) are written in an unstructured way, often using natural language. Information Extraction (IE) may be used for acquiring knowledge from such texts, including the automatic recognition of meaningful entities, through models for Named Entity Recognition (NER). However, while most work on the previous was made for English, this experience aimed at testing different methods in Portuguese text, more precisely, on the domain of Neurology, and take some conclusions. This paper comprised the comparison between Conditional Random Fields (CRF), bidirectional Long Short-term Memory - Conditional Random Fields (BiLSTM-CRF) and a BiLSTM-CRF with residual learning connections, using not only Portuguese texts from medical journals but also texts from the Coimbra Hospital and Universitary Centre (CHUC) Neurology Service. Furthermore, the performances of BiLSTM-CRF models using word embeddings (WEs) trained with clinical text and WEs trained with general language texts were compared. Deep learning models achieved F1-Scores of nearly 83% and 75%, respectively for relaxed and strict evaluation, on texts extracted from the medical journal. For texts collected from the Hospital, the same achieved F1-Scores of nearly 71% and 62%. This work concludes that deep learning models outperform the shallow learning models and that in-domain WEs get better results than general language WEs, even when the latter are trained with much more text than the former. Furthermore, the results show that it is possible to extract information from Hospital clinical texts with models trained with clinical cases extracted from medical journals, and thus openly available. Nevertheless, such results still require a healthcare technician to check if the information is well extracted.
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