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Evaluating Syndrome Definitions in the Extended Syndromic Surveillance Ontology
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The Extended Syndromic Surveillance Ontology (ESSO) is an open source terminological ontology designed to facilitate the text mining of clinical reports in English [1,2]. At the core of ESSO are 279 clinical concepts (for example, fever, confusion,… read more… J Am Med Inform Assoc. 2010;17:595�601. *Mike Conway E-mail: michaelambroseconway@gmail.com (page number not for citation purpose) Table 1. … -
A web-based platform to support text mining of clinical reports for public health surveillance
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PyConTextKit is a web-based platform that extracts entities from clinical text and provides relevant metadata - for example, whether the entity is negated or hypothetical - using simple lexical clues occurring in the window of text surrounding the… read more… Analysis. Bled, Slovenia; 2011:75�82. *Annie T. Chen E-mail: atchen@email.unc.edu (page number not for citation purpose) �ISDS … -
Using cKASS to facilitate knowledge authoring and sharing for syndromic surveillance
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Mining text for real-time syndromic surveillance usually requires a comprehensive knowledge base (KB) which contains detailed information about concepts relevant to the domain, such as disease names, symptoms, drugs, and radiology findings. Two such… read more… Bled, Slovenia, July 6; 2011:75�82. *Liqin Wang E-mail: liqin.wang@utah.edu (page number not for citation …