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ArticleAMIA ... Annual Symposium proceedings. AMIA Symposium2016

Resource Classification for Medical Questions.

Kirk Roberts, Laritza Rodriguez, Sonya E Shooshan, 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 4 papers.

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  3. Resource and Response Type Classification for Consumer Health Question Answering.AMIA ... Annual Symposium proceedings. AMIA Symposium · 2018
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  4. A Semantic Parsing Method for Mapping Clinical Questions to Logical Forms.AMIA ... Annual Symposium proceedings. AMIA Symposium · 2017
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4 authors.

Kirk RobertsSchool of Biomedical Informatics, University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Houston, TX.
Laritza RodriguezLister Hill National Center for Biomedical Communications, National Library of Medicine, Bethesda, MD.
Sonya E ShooshanLister Hill National Center for Biomedical Communications, National Library of Medicine, Bethesda, MD.
Dina Demner-FushmanLister Hill National Center for Biomedical Communications, National Library of Medicine, Bethesda, MD.

Funding

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
NLM NIH HHS R00 LM012104
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

We present an approach for manually and automatically classifying the resource type of medical questions. Three types of resources are considered: patient-specific, general knowledge, and research. Using this approach, an automatic question answering system could select the best type of resource from which to consider answers. We first describe our methodology for manually annotating resource type on four different question corpora totaling over 5,000 questions. We then describe our approach for automatically identifying the appropriate type of resource. A supervised machine learning approach is used with lexical, syntactic, semantic, and topic-based feature types. This approach is able to achieve accuracies in the range of 80.9% to 92.8% across four datasets. Finally, we discuss the difficulties encountered in both manual and automatic classification of this challenging task.

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AlgorithmsMachine LearningDatasets as TopicHumansHypersensitivityInformation Seeking BehaviorInformation Storage and RetrievalNatural Language ProcessingSemantics

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PMID28269901
PMCPMC5333297

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