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A comprehensive study of named entity recognition in Chinese clinical text

Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association : JAMIA, 2014-09, Vol.21 (5), p.808-814 [Peer Reviewed Journal]

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  • Title:
    A comprehensive study of named entity recognition in Chinese clinical text
  • Author: Lei, Jianbo ; Tang, Buzhou ; Lu, Xueqin ; Gao, Kaihua ; Jiang, Min ; Xu, Hua
  • Subjects: Algorithms ; Artificial Intelligence ; China ; Electronic Health Records ; Focus on Biomedical Natural Language Processing and Data Modeling ; Humans ; Natural Language Processing ; Patient Admission ; Support Vector Machine
  • Is Part Of: Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association : JAMIA, 2014-09, Vol.21 (5), p.808-814
  • Description: Named entity recognition (NER) is one of the fundamental tasks in natural language processing. In the medical domain, there have been a number of studies on NER in English clinical notes; however, very limited NER research has been carried out on clinical notes written in Chinese. The goal of this study was to systematically investigate features and machine learning algorithms for NER in Chinese clinical text. We randomly selected 400 admission notes and 400 discharge summaries from Peking Union Medical College Hospital in China. For each note, four types of entity-clinical problems, procedures, laboratory test, and medications-were annotated according to a predefined guideline. Two-thirds of the 400 notes were used to train the NER systems and one-third for testing. We investigated the effects of different types of feature including bag-of-characters, word segmentation, part-of-speech, and section information, and different machine learning algorithms including conditional random fields (CRF), support vector machines (SVM), maximum entropy (ME), and structural SVM (SSVM) on the Chinese clinical NER task. All classifiers were trained on the training dataset and evaluated on the test set, and micro-averaged precision, recall, and F-measure were reported. Our evaluation on the independent test set showed that most types of feature were beneficial to Chinese NER systems, although the improvements were limited. The system achieved the highest performance by combining word segmentation and section information, indicating that these two types of feature complement each other. When the same types of optimized feature were used, CRF and SSVM outperformed SVM and ME. More specifically, SSVM achieved the highest performance of the four algorithms, with F-measures of 93.51% and 90.01% for admission notes and discharge summaries, respectively.
  • Publisher: England: BMJ Publishing Group
  • Language: English
  • Identifier: ISSN: 1067-5027
    EISSN: 1527-974X
    DOI: 10.1136/amiajnl-2013-002381
    PMID: 24347408
  • Source: Geneva Foundation Free Medical Journals at publisher websites
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