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ArticleProceedings of the conference. Association for Computational Linguistics. Meeting2023

End-to-end clinical temporal information extraction with multi-head attention.

Timothy Miller, Steven Bethard, Dmitriy Dligach, Guergana Savova

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Article in Proceedings of the conference. Association for Computational Linguistics. Meeting, 2023. 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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4citing papers in PubMed
0.9field-weighted citation impact, top 21% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

4 citing papers in PubMed, 5 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. A Dataset of Psychiatric Hospital Notes with Temporal Information Annotations.LREC ... International Conference on Language Resources & Evaluation : [proceedings]. International Conference on Language Resources & Evaluation · 2026
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  2. End-to-end extraction of temporal information from psychiatric discharge summaries.AMIA Joint Summits on Translational Science proceedings. AMIA Joint Summits on Translational Science · 2026
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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors at 4 institutions in 1 country.

Timothy MillerComputational Health Informatics Program, Boston Children's Hospital, Harvard Medical School.
Steven BethardSchool of Information, University of Arizona.
Dmitriy DligachDepartment of Computer Science, Loyola University, Chicago.
Guergana SavovaComputational Health Informatics Program, Boston Children's Hospital, Harvard Medical School.
Boston Children's Hospital · USHarvard University · USLoyola University Chicago · USUniversity of Arizona · US

Funding

Temporal relation discovery for clinical textR01LM010090 · NLM · BOSTON CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL · PI MARTIN, JAMES H., SAVOVA, GUERGANA K. · 2010 to 2022
$7.1M
Data Driven Strategies for Substance Misuse Identification in Hospitalized PatientsR01DA051464 · NIDA · UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN-MADISON · PI Majid Afshar · 2020 to 2026
$4.5M
Learning Universal Patient Representations with Hierarchical TransformersR01LM012973 · NLM · BOSTON CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL · PI Timothy A Miller · 2019 to 2026
$3.5M
Modeling Temporality with Natural Language Processing to Predict Readmission Risk of Patients with PsychosisR01MH126977 · NIMH · BOSTON CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL · PI Mei-Hua Hall, Timothy A Miller · 2022 to 2026
$3.0M
Automated domain adaptation for clinical natural language processingR01LM012918 · NLM · BOSTON CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL · PI MILLER, TIMOTHY A · 2018 to 2020
$1.2M
NIDA NIH HHS R01 DA051464NIMH NIH HHS R01 MH126977NLM NIH HHS R01 LM010090NLM NIH HHS R01 LM012918NLM NIH HHS R01 LM012973
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Understanding temporal relationships in text from electronic health records can be valuable for many important downstream clinical applications. Since Clinical TempEval 2017, there has been little work on end-to-end systems for temporal relation extraction, with most work focused on the setting where gold standard events and time expressions are given. In this work, we make use of a novel multi-headed attention mechanism on top of a pre-trained transformer encoder to allow the learning process to attend to multiple aspects of the contextualized embeddings. Our system achieves state of the art results on the THYME corpus by a wide margin, in both the in-domain and cross-domain settings.

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PMID37780680
PMCPMC10540151
OpenAlexW4385571337

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