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ArticleAMIA ... Annual Symposium proceedings. AMIA Symposium2016

Combining Open-domain and Biomedical Knowledge for Topic Recognition in Consumer Health Questions.

Yassine Mrabet, Halil Kilicoglu, Kirk Roberts, Dina Demner-Fushman

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Article in AMIA ... Annual Symposium proceedings. AMIA Symposium, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 papers.

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  4. On the Role of Question Summarization and Information Source Restriction in Consumer Health Question Answering.AMIA Joint Summits on Translational Science proceedings. AMIA Joint Summits on Translational Science · 2019
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  5. UMLS to DBPedia link discovery through circular resolution.Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association : JAMIA · 2018
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4 authors.

Yassine MrabetLister Hill National Center for Biomedical Communications, U.S. National Library of Medicine, Bethesda, MD, USA.
Halil KilicogluLister Hill National Center for Biomedical Communications, U.S. National Library of Medicine, Bethesda, MD, USA.
Kirk RobertsUniversity of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Houston, TX, USA.
Dina Demner-FushmanLister Hill National Center for Biomedical Communications, U.S. National Library of Medicine, Bethesda, MD, USA.

Funding

Penn State Clinical and Translational Science InstituteUL1TR002014 · NCATS · PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIV HERSHEY MED CTR · PI KRASCHNEWSKI, JENNIFER L. · 2016 to 2025
$33.7M
Natural language processing for precision medicine and clinical and consumer health questionZIALM010009 · NLM · NATIONAL LIBRARY OF MEDICINE · PI DEMNER-FUSHMAN, DINA · 2017 to 2020
$2.3M
Natural Language Question Understanding for Electronic Health RecordsR00LM012104 · NLM · UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS HLTH SCI CTR HOUSTON · PI ROBERTS, KIRK EDWARD · 2016 to 2018
$747k
NCATS NIH HHS UL1 TR002014NLM NIH HHS R00 LM012104
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Determining the main topics in consumer health questions is a crucial step in their processing as it allows narrowing the search space to a specific semantic context. In this paper we propose a topic recognition approach based on biomedical and open-domain knowledge bases. In the first step of our method, we recognize named entities in consumer health questions using an unsupervised method that relies on a biomedical knowledge base, UMLS, and an open-domain knowledge base, DBpedia. In the next step, we cast topic recognition as a binary classification problem of deciding whether a named entity is the question topic or not. We evaluated our approach on a dataset from the National Library of Medicine (NLM), introduced in this paper, and another from the Genetic and Rare Disease Information Center (GARD). The combination of knowledge bases outperformed the results obtained by individual knowledge bases by up to 16.5% F1 and achieved state-of-the-art performance. Our results demonstrate that combining open-domain knowledge bases with biomedical knowledge bases can lead to a substantial improvement in understanding user-generated health content.

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Consumer Health InformationInformation Seeking BehaviorKnowledge BasesDatasets as TopicHumansInformation Storage and RetrievalNatural Language ProcessingSemantics

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PMID28269888
PMCPMC5333243

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