Title :
A Systematic Approach for Medical Language Processing: Generating Derivational Variants
Author :
Lu, Chris J. ; McCreedy, Lynn ; Tormey, Destinee ; Browne, Allen C.
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);
Journal_Title :
IT Professional
DOI :
10.1109/MITP.2012.29
