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ArticleJournal of the American Medical Informatics Association : JAMIA2020

A graph-based method for reconstructing entities from coordination ellipsis in medical text.

Chi Yuan, Yongli Wang, Ning Shang, Ziran Li, Ruxin Zhao, Chunhua Weng

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Chi YuanDepartment of Computer Science and Technology, Nanjing University of Science and Technology, Nanjing, China.
Yongli WangDepartment of Computer Science and Technology, Nanjing University of Science and Technology, Nanjing, China.
Ning ShangDepartment of Biomedical Informatics, Columbia University, New York, New York, USA.
Ziran LiDepartment of Biomedical Informatics, Columbia University, New York, New York, USA.
Ruxin ZhaoDepartment of Computer Science and Technology, Nanjing University of Science and Technology, Nanjing, China.
Chunhua WengDepartment of Biomedical Informatics, Columbia University, New York, New York, USA.

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objectiveCoordination ellipsis is a linguistic phenomenon abound in medical text and is challenging for concept normalization because of difficulty in recognizing elliptical expressions referencing 2 or more entities accurately. To resolve this bottleneck, we aim to contribute a generalizable method to reconstruct concepts from medical coordinated elliptical expressions in a variety of biomedical corpora. MATERIALS AND

methodsWe proposed a graph-based representation model and built a pipeline to reconstruct concepts from coordinated elliptical expressions in medical text (RECEEM). There are 4 modules: (1) identify all possible candidate conjunct pairs from original coordinated elliptical expressions, (2) calculate coefficients for candidate conjuncts using the embedding model, (3) select the most appropriate decompositions by global optimization, and (4) rebuild concepts based on a pathfinding algorithm. We evaluated the pipeline's performance on 2658 coordinated elliptical expressions from 3 different medical corpora (ie, biomedical literature, clinical narratives, and eligibility criteria from clinical trials). Precision, recall, and F1 score were calculated.

resultsThe F1 scores for biomedical publications, clinical narratives, and research eligibility criteria were 0.862, 0.721, and 0.870, respectively. RECEEM outperformed 2 previously released methods. By incorporating RECEEM into 2 existing NLP tools, the F1 scores increased from 0.248 to 0.460 and from 0.287 to 0.630 on concept mapping of 1125 coordination ellipses.

conclusionsRECEEM improves concept normalization for medical coordinated elliptical expressions in a variety of biomedical corpora. It outperformed existing methods and significantly enhanced the performance of 2 notable NLP systems for mapping coordination ellipses in the evaluation. The algorithm is open sourced online (https://github.com/chiyuan1126/RECEEM).

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LinguisticsNatural Language ProcessingComputational BiologyTerminology as Topicconcept normalizationcoordination ellipsisnatural language processing

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