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Finding medically unexplained symptoms within VA clinical documents using v3NLP
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Pro-WATCH (protecting war fighters using algorithms for text processing to capture health events), a syndromic surveillance project for veterans of operation enduring freedom (OEF)/operation Iraqi freedom (OIF), includes a task to identify medically… read more… Unified Medical Language System (UMLS) concepts (http://www.nlm.nih.gov/research/umls/). The v3NLP in- cludes a … QZ Trietler.; licensee Emerging Health Threats Journal. www.eht-journal.org 9 status for asthma research: evaluation … Threats Journal G Divita and QZ Trietler. 2011, 4:s19 www.eht-journal.org page 2/2 10 … -
Using clinician mental models to guide annotation of medically unexplained symptoms and syndromes found in VA clinical documents
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Medically unexplained syndromes (MUS) are conditions that are diagnosed on the basis of symptom constellations and are characterized by a lack of well-defined pathogenic pathways. The three most common MUS are chronic fatigue … read more… Language Processing system developed for automated symp- tom extraction. Our overarching goal is to characterize the … South et al.; licensee Emerging Health Threats Journal. www.eht-journal.org 64 unknown syndromes of interest to … Health Threats Journal BR South et al. 2011, 4:s115 www.eht-journal.org page 2/2 65 … -
Standardization to aid interoperability between NLP system
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There are a number of Natural Language Processing (NLP) annotation and Information Extraction (IE) systems and platforms that have been successfully used within the medical domain. Although these groups share components of their systems, there… read more… Divita et al.; licensee Emerging Health Threats Journal. www.eht-journal.org 21 Veterans Affairs has a real need to … 1–2 December 2010. References 1 Demner-Fushman D, Chapman WW, McDonald CJ. What can natural language processing do for … Annotation Workshop, ACL-IJCNLP 2009, pp 27–34. www.aclweb.org/anthol- ogy/W/W09/W09-3004.pdf. 3 Dolin R, …