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ArticlePacific Symposium on Biocomputing. Pacific Symposium on Biocomputing2018

Improving precision in concept normalization.

Mayla Boguslav, K Bretonnel Cohen, William A Baumgartner, Lawrence E Hunter

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Article in Pacific Symposium on Biocomputing. Pacific Symposium on Biocomputing, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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4 authors.

Mayla BoguslavComputational Bioscience Program, University of Colorado School of Medicine, Aurora, CO 80045, USA compbio.ucdenver.edu, Mayla.Boguslav@ucdenver.edu.
K Bretonnel Cohen
William A Baumgartner
Lawrence E Hunter

Funding

Computational Bioscience Program Training GrantT15LM009451 · NLM · UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO DENVER · PI Katherina Kechris-Mays, Arjun Krishnan · 2007 to 2026
$11.7M
Technology Development for a MolBio Knowledge-BaseR01LM008111 · NLM · UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO DENVER · PI HUNTER, LAWRENCE E · 2004 to 2021
$9.7M
Bio Text NLPR01LM009254 · NLM · UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO DENVER · PI HUNTER, LAWRENCE E · 2006 to 2018
$5.9M
Construction of a Full Text Corpus for Biomedical Text MiningG08LM009639 · NLM · UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO DENVER · PI HUNTER, LAWRENCE E · 2007 to 2009
$471k
NLM NIH HHS G08 LM009639NLM NIH HHS R01 LM008111NLM NIH HHS R01 LM009254NLM NIH HHS T15 LM009451
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Most natural language processing applications exhibit a trade-off between precision and recall. In some use cases for natural language processing, there are reasons to prefer to tilt that trade-off toward high precision. Relying on the Zipfian distribution of false positive results, we describe a strategy for increasing precision, using a variety of both pre-processing and post-processing methods. They draw on both knowledge-based and frequentist approaches to modeling language. Based on an existing high-performance biomedical concept recognition pipeline and a previously published manually annotated corpus, we apply this hybrid rationalist/empiricist strategy to concept normalization for eight different ontologies. Which approaches did and did not improve precision varied widely between the ontologies.

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Natural Language ProcessingBiological OntologiesComputational BiologyData MiningElectronic Health RecordsFalse Positive ReactionsHumansPrecision MedicinePubMedReproducibility of Results

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PMID29218915
PMCPMC5730334

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