A Systematic Approach for Medical Language Processing: Generating Derivational Variants

Authors :: Allen C. Browne
Destinee Tormey
Chris J. Lu
Lynn McCreedy
Source :: IT Professional. 14:36-42
Publication Year :: 2012
Publisher :: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2012.
Abstract: Medical language processing seeks to analyze linguistic patterns in electronic medical records, which requires managing lexical variations. A systematic approach to generating derivational variants, including prefixes, suffixes, and zero derivations, has improved precision and recall rates.

Subjects :: Computer science
business.industry
Pragmatics
computer.software_genre
Computer Science Applications
Terminology
Zero (linguistics)
Prefix
Hardware and Architecture
Artificial intelligence
business
Precision and recall
Medical language processing
computer
Software
Natural language processing

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