Title
Mining Temporal Causal Relations in Medical Texts.
Abstract
Causal sentences are a main part of the medical explanations, providing the causes of diseases or showing the effects of medical treatments. In medicine, causal association is frequently related to time restrictions. So, some drugs must be taken before or after meals, being 'after' and 'before' temporary constraints. Thus, we conjecture that frequently medical papers include time causal sentences. Causality involves a transfer of qualities from the cause to the effect, denoted by a directed arrow. An arrow connecting the node cause with the node effect is a causal graph. Causal graphs are an imagery way to show the causal dependencies that a sentence shows using plain text. In this paper, we will provide several programs to extract time causal sentences from medical Internet resources and to convert the obtained sentences in their equivalent causal graphs, providing an enlightening image of the relations that a text describes, showing the cause-effect links and the temporary constraints affecting their interpretation.
Year
DOI
Venue
2017
10.1007/978-3-319-67180-2_44
INTERNATIONAL JOINT CONFERENCE SOCO'17- CISIS'17-ICEUTE'17 PROCEEDINGS
Keywords
Field
DocType
Causality,Time,Mining causal sentences,Causal graphs,Time constrained causal graphs
Graph,Causality,Arrow,Computer science,Causal relations,Cognitive psychology,Plain text,Sentence,Conjecture,Internet resources
Conference
Volume
ISSN
Citations 
649
2194-5357
1
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
5
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Alejandro Sobrino1309.59
Cristina Puente2195.60
José A. Olivas310620.85