A statistical natural language processor for medical reports

Statistical natural language processors have been the focus of much research during the past decade. The main advantage of such an approach over grammatical rule-based approaches is its scalability to new domains. We present a statistical NLP for the domain of radiology and report on methods of know...

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Published in:Proceedings - AMIA Symposium 1999, p.970-974
Main Authors: Taira, R K, Soderland, S G
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Algorithms
Evaluation Studies as Topic
Humans
Linguistics
Medical Records
Natural Language Processing
Radiography, Thoracic
Semantics
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Summary:Statistical natural language processors have been the focus of much research during the past decade. The main advantage of such an approach over grammatical rule-based approaches is its scalability to new domains. We present a statistical NLP for the domain of radiology and report on methods of knowledge acquisition, parsing, semantic interpretation, and evaluation. Preliminary performance data are given. A discussion of the perceived benefit, limitations and future work is presented.
ISSN:1531-605X