Abbreviation and Acronym Identification and Expansion Within Medical Health Records
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Title: | Abbreviation and Acronym Identification and Expansion Within Medical Health Records | Authors: | Wallace, Duncan; Kechadi, Tahar | Permanent link: | http://hdl.handle.net/10197/9937 | Date: | 22-Jul-2017 | Online since: | 2019-04-15T08:27:51Z | Abstract: | Recent years have seen the rapid increase in digitised medical information. In particular, the massive expansion of Electronic Health Records (EHRs), which are designed to document all information that is clinically relevant in a patient's use of a healthcare facility, has introduced unprecedented volumes of relatively unstructured data. This paper intends to determine the extent to which knowledge discovery in relation to both abbreviations and acronyms within heterogeneous data can be achieved. Heterogeneous data such as the narrative-based free-text notes found within patients' EHRs may use inconsistent ways to indicate contractions within the text and may use non-standard definitions for both abbreviations and acronyms. We approached this task through the retrieval and classification of contractions as well as using a novel method of combining multiple publically available repositories. In order to provide better coverage of abbreviations, and also to address the issue of neologisms in general, word embeddings were applied to find semantically similar lexemes. | Funding Details: | Science Foundation Ireland | Funding Details: | Carlow Emergency Doctors On Call – CAREDOC | Type of material: | Conference Publication | Publisher: | IADIS | Start page: | 102 | End page: | 108 | Copyright (published version): | 2017 the Authors | Keywords: | Bio-informatics; Text-mining; Natural language processing; Feature selection | Language: | en | Status of Item: | Peer reviewed | Conference Details: | The 9th International Conference on e-Health, Lisbon, Portugal, 20-22 July 2017 | ISBN: | 978-989-8533-65-4 | This item is made available under a Creative Commons License: | https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/ie/ |
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