Title
Aligned-Layer Text Search in Clinical Notes.
Abstract
Search techniques in clinical text need to make fine-grained semantic distinctions, since medical terms may be negated, about someone other than the patient, or at some time other than the present. While natural language processing (NLP) approaches address these fine-grained distinctions, a task like patient cohort identification from electronic health records (EHRs) simultaneously requires a much more coarse-grained combination of evidence from the text and structured data of each patient's health records. We thus introduce aligned-layer language models, a novel approach to information retrieval (IR) that incorporates the output of other NLP systems. We show that this framework is able to represent standard IR queries, formulate previously impossible multi-layered queries, and customize the desired degree of linguistic granularity.
Year
DOI
Venue
2017
10.3233/978-1-61499-830-3-629
Studies in Health Technology and Informatics
Keywords
DocType
Volume
Natural Language Processing,Information Storage and Retrieval,Electronic Health Records
Conference
245
ISSN
Citations 
PageRank 
0926-9630
0
0.34
References 
Authors
0
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Stephen Wu1506.61
Andrew Wen221.71
Yanshan Wang34719.00
Sijia Liu411.07
Hongfang Liu51479160.66