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Effective co-reference resolution in clinical text

  • University of Houston-Downtown
  • University of Puerto Rico

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Abstract

The 2011 I2B2 challenge involves co-reference resolution in medical documents. Concept mentions have been annotated in clinical texts, and the mentions which co-refer in each document are to be linked by co-reference chains. There have been systems developed for co-reference resolution by various organizations. The aim of this study was to use the systems which are publicly available, as well as build a rule based algorithm tailored for this challenge, and test these systems on the data provided for this challenge. The study shows the publically available systems do manage to find some of the co-referent links, and the rule based system developed for this challenge performs well finding the majority of the co-referent links. The system that was used to provide the final outputs for the challenge had 89.6% overall performance average.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationAdvanced Research in Applied Artificial Intelligence - 25th International Conference on Industrial Engineering and Other Applications of Applied Intelligent Systems, IEA/AIE 2012, Proceedings
Pages302-312
Number of pages11
DOIs
StatePublished - 2012
Event25th International Conference on Industrial Engineering and Other Applications of Applied Intelligent Systems, IEA/AIE 2012 - Dalian, China
Duration: Jun 9 2012Jun 12 2012

Publication series

NameLecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
Volume7345 LNAI
ISSN (Print)0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)1611-3349

Conference

Conference25th International Conference on Industrial Engineering and Other Applications of Applied Intelligent Systems, IEA/AIE 2012
Country/TerritoryChina
CityDalian
Period6/9/126/12/12

ASJC Scopus Subject Areas

  • Theoretical Computer Science
  • General Computer Science

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