TY - JOUR
T1 - Medical facts to support inferencing in natural language processing
AU - Rindflesch, Thomas C.
AU - Pakhomov, Serguei V.
AU - Fiszman, Marcelo
AU - Kilicoglu, Halil
AU - Sanchez, Vincent R.
PY - 2005
Y1 - 2005
N2 - We report on the use of medical facts to support the enhancement of natural language processing of biomedical text. Inferencing in semantic interpretation depends on a fact repository as well as an ontology. We used statistical methods to construct a repository of drug-disorder co-occurrences from a large collection of clinical notes, and this resource is used to validate inferences automatically drawn during semantic interpretation of Medline citations about pharmacologic interventions for disease. We evaluated the results against a published reference standard for treatment of diseases.
AB - We report on the use of medical facts to support the enhancement of natural language processing of biomedical text. Inferencing in semantic interpretation depends on a fact repository as well as an ontology. We used statistical methods to construct a repository of drug-disorder co-occurrences from a large collection of clinical notes, and this resource is used to validate inferences automatically drawn during semantic interpretation of Medline citations about pharmacologic interventions for disease. We evaluated the results against a published reference standard for treatment of diseases.
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M3 - Article
C2 - 16779117
AN - SCOPUS:36749045059
SN - 1559-4076
SP - 634
EP - 638
JO - AMIA ... Annual Symposium proceedings / AMIA Symposium. AMIA Symposium
JF - AMIA ... Annual Symposium proceedings / AMIA Symposium. AMIA Symposium
ER -