Induced lexico-syntactic patterns improve information extraction from online medical forums
Journal of the American Medical Informatics AssociationPublished 27 June 2014Open access
Sonal Gupta, D. L. MacLean, Jeffrey Heer, Christopher D. Manning
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This is the first paper to extract SC and DT entities from PAT by learning lexico-syntactic patterns from data annotated with seed dictionaries, and exhibits learning of informal terms often used in PAT but missing from typical dictionaries.
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Our entity extractor based on lexico-syntactic patterns is a successful and preferable technique for identifying specific entity types in PAT. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first paper to extract SC and DT entities from PAT. We exhibit learning of informal terms often used in PAT but missing from typical dictionaries.
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