Title
Preliminary experience with Amazon's Mechanical Turk for annotating medical named entities
Abstract
Amazon's Mechanical Turk (MTurk) service is becoming increasingly popular in Natural Language Processing (NLP) research. In this paper, we report our findings in using MTurk to annotate medical text extracted from clinical trial descriptions with three entity types: medical condition, medication, and laboratory test. We compared MTurk annotations with a gold standard manually created by a domain expert. Based on the good performance results, we conclude that MTurk is a very promising tool for annotating large-scale corpora for biomedical NLP tasks.
Year
Venue
Keywords
2010
Mturk@HLT-NAACL
mechanical turk,mturk annotation,biomedical nlp task,gold standard,entity type,medical text,clinical trial description,medical condition,domain expert,preliminary experience,natural language processing
Field
DocType
Citations 
Subject-matter expert,Computer science,Amazon rainforest,Natural language processing,Artificial intelligence
Conference
21
PageRank 
References 
Authors
1.00
5
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Meliha Yetisgen-Yildiz132834.25
Imre Solti233723.36
Fei Xia318014.23
Scott Russell Halgrim4211.00