Challenges in understanding clinical notes: Why NLP engines fall short and where background knowledge can help

Sujan Perera; Amit Sheth; Krishnaprasad Thirunarayan; Suhas Nair; Neil Shah

doi:10.1145/2512410.2512427

Challenges in understanding clinical notes: Why NLP engines fall short and where background knowledge can help

Sujan Perera, Amit Sheth, Krishnaprasad Thirunarayan, Suhas Nair, Neil Shah

Computer Science and Engineering

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Original language	English
Title of host publication	2013 International Workshop on Data Management and Analytics for HealthcaRE, DARE 2013 - Co-located with the 22nd ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, CIKM 2013
Pages	21-26
Number of pages	6
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/2512410.2512427
State	Published - 2013
Event	2013 International Workshop on Data Management and Analytics for HealthcaRE, DARE 2013 - Co-located with the 22nd ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, CIKM 2013 - San Francisco, CA, United States Duration: Nov 1 2013 → Nov 1 2013

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Name	International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, Proceedings

Conference

Conference	2013 International Workshop on Data Management and Analytics for HealthcaRE, DARE 2013 - Co-located with the 22nd ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, CIKM 2013
Country/Territory	United States
City	San Francisco, CA
Period	11/1/13 → 11/1/13

ASJC Scopus Subject Areas

General Decision Sciences
General Business,Management and Accounting

Keywords

Knowledge base
Natural language processing
Negation detection

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Perera, S., Sheth, A., Thirunarayan, K., Nair, S., & Shah, N. (2013). Challenges in understanding clinical notes: Why NLP engines fall short and where background knowledge can help. In 2013 International Workshop on Data Management and Analytics for HealthcaRE, DARE 2013 - Co-located with the 22nd ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, CIKM 2013 (pp. 21-26). (International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, Proceedings). https://doi.org/10.1145/2512410.2512427

Challenges in understanding clinical notes: Why NLP engines fall short and where background knowledge can help. / Perera, Sujan; Sheth, Amit; Thirunarayan, Krishnaprasad et al.
2013 International Workshop on Data Management and Analytics for HealthcaRE, DARE 2013 - Co-located with the 22nd ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, CIKM 2013. 2013. p. 21-26 (International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, Proceedings).

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution

Perera, S, Sheth, A, Thirunarayan, K, Nair, S & Shah, N 2013, Challenges in understanding clinical notes: Why NLP engines fall short and where background knowledge can help. in 2013 International Workshop on Data Management and Analytics for HealthcaRE, DARE 2013 - Co-located with the 22nd ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, CIKM 2013. International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, Proceedings, pp. 21-26, 2013 International Workshop on Data Management and Analytics for HealthcaRE, DARE 2013 - Co-located with the 22nd ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, CIKM 2013, San Francisco, CA, United States, 11/1/13. https://doi.org/10.1145/2512410.2512427

Perera S, Sheth A, Thirunarayan K, Nair S, Shah N. Challenges in understanding clinical notes: Why NLP engines fall short and where background knowledge can help. In 2013 International Workshop on Data Management and Analytics for HealthcaRE, DARE 2013 - Co-located with the 22nd ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, CIKM 2013. 2013. p. 21-26. (International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, Proceedings). doi: 10.1145/2512410.2512427

Perera, Sujan ; Sheth, Amit ; Thirunarayan, Krishnaprasad et al. / Challenges in understanding clinical notes : Why NLP engines fall short and where background knowledge can help. 2013 International Workshop on Data Management and Analytics for HealthcaRE, DARE 2013 - Co-located with the 22nd ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, CIKM 2013. 2013. pp. 21-26 (International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, Proceedings).

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