Title
Designing a system to extract and interpret timed causal sentences in medical reports.
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 medical papers include a lot of 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 article, we 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
2019
10.1080/0952813X.2018.1513081
JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL & THEORETICAL ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
Keywords
Field
DocType
Causality,time,mining causal sentences,causal graphs,time constrained causal graphs
Graph,Causality,Arrow,Computer science,Plain text,Natural language processing,Artificial intelligence,Sentence,Conjecture,Internet resources
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
31.0
1
0952-813X
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
0
0.34
6
Authors
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Cristina Puente1195.60
Alejandro Sobrino2309.59
José Angel Olivas36512.87
Augusto Villa Monte422.10