• DocumentCode
    1472590
  • Title

    A Systematic Approach for Medical Language Processing: Generating Derivational Variants

  • Author

    Lu, Chris J. ; McCreedy, Lynn ; Tormey, Destinee ; Browne, Allen C.

  • Volume
    14
  • Issue
    3
  • fYear
    2012
  • Firstpage
    36
  • Lastpage
    42
  • Abstract
    Medical language processing seeks to analyze linguistic patterns in electronic medical records, which requires managing lexical variations. A systematic approach to generating derivational variants, including prefixes, suffixes, and zero derivations, has improved precision and recall rates.
  • Keywords
    linguistics; medical information systems; natural language processing; derivational variants; electronic medical records; lexical variation management; linguistic pattern analysis; medical language processing; precision rates; prefixes; recall rates; suffixes; systematic approach; zero derivations; Medical information systems; Natural language processing; Pragmatics; Syntactics; Systematics; Tagging; Terminology; derivational variants generation; lexical tools; medical language processing (MLP); natural language Processing (NLP);
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Journal_Title
    IT Professional
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • ISSN
    1520-9202
  • Type

    jour

  • DOI
    10.1109/MITP.2012.29
  • Filename
    6171151
    • Link To Document
    https://search.isc.ac/dl/search/defaultta.aspx?DTC=49&DC=1472590