Linguistically Motivated Negation Processing: An Application for the Detection of Risk Indicators in Unstructured Discharge Summaries



Document title: Linguistically Motivated Negation Processing: An Application for the Detection of Risk Indicators in Unstructured Discharge Summaries
Journal: Polibits
Database: PERIÓDICA
System number: 000359045
ISSN: 1870-9044
Authors: 1
Institutions: 1Xerox Research Centre Europe, Meylan. Francia
Year:
Season: Ene-Jun
Number: 43
Country: México
Language: Inglés
Document type: Artículo
Approach: Analítico, descriptivo
English abstract The paper proposes a linguistically motivated approach to deal with negation in the context of information extraction. This approach is used in a practical application: the automatic detection of cases of hospital acquired infections (HAI) by processing unstructured medical discharge summaries. One of the important processing steps is the extraction of specific terms expressing risk indicators that can lead to the conclusion of HAI cases. This term extraction has to be very accurate and negation has to be taken into account in order to really understand if a string corresponding to a potential risk indicator is attested positively or negatively in the document. We propose a linguistically motivated approach for dealing with negation using both syntactic and semantic information. This approach is first described and then evaluated in the context of our application in the medical domain. The results of evaluation are also compared with other related approaches dealing with negation in medical texts
Disciplines: Ciencias de la computación,
Literatura y lingüística
Keyword: Procesamiento de datos,
Lingüística aplicada,
Lingüística computacional,
Análisis de textos,
Resúmenes,
Negación,
Extracción de información,
Análisis gramatical
Keyword: Computer science,
Literature and linguistics,
Data processing,
Applied linguistics,
Computing linguistics,
Text analysis,
Summaries,
Negation,
Information extraction,
Parsing
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