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ArticleBMC medical informatics and decision making2019

Precursor-induced conditional random fields: connecting separate entities by induction for improved clinical named entity recognition.

Wangjin Lee, Jinwook Choi

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Article in BMC medical informatics and decision making, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

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Wangjin LeeInterdisciplinary Program for Bioengineering, Graduate School, Seoul National University, 103 Daehak-ro, Jongno-gu, Seoul, 03080, South Korea.
Jinwook ChoiInterdisciplinary Program for Bioengineering, Graduate School, Seoul National University, 103 Daehak-ro, Jongno-gu, Seoul, 03080, South Korea. jinchoi@snu.ac.kr.ORCID 0000-0002-9424-9944

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Informatics for Integrating Biology/ the Bedside (RMI)U54LM008748 · NLM · BRIGHAM AND WOMEN'S HOSPITAL · PI KOHANE, ISAAC S. · 2004 to 2013
$39.0M
NLM NIH HHS U54 LM008748
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Abstract

backgroundThis paper presents a conditional random fields (CRF) method that enables the capture of specific high-order label transition factors to improve clinical named entity recognition performance. Consecutive clinical entities in a sentence are usually separated from each other, and the textual descriptions in clinical narrative documents frequently indicate causal or posterior relationships that can be used to facilitate clinical named entity recognition. However, the CRF that is generally used for named entity recognition is a first-order model that constrains label transition dependency of adjoining labels under the Markov assumption.

methodsBased on the first-order structure, our proposed model utilizes non-entity tokens between separated entities as an information transmission medium by applying a label induction method. The model is referred to as precursor-induced CRF because its non-entity state memorizes precursor entity information, and the model's structure allows the precursor entity information to propagate forward through the label sequence.

resultsWe compared the proposed model with both first- and second-order CRFs in terms of their F

conclusionThe proposed precursor-induced CRF which uses non-entity labels as label transition information improves entity recognition F

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Health Information SystemsModels, TheoreticalNatural Language ProcessingHumansClinical named entity recognitionClinical natural language processingConditional random fieldsHigh-order dependencyInduction method

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PMID31307440
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