Title
Clinical Concept Normalization On Medical Records Using Word Embeddings And Heuristics
Abstract
Electronic health records contain valuable information on patients' clinical history in the form of free text. Manually analyzing millions of these documents is unfeasible and automatic natural language processing methods are essential for efficiently exploiting these data. Within this, normalization of clinical entities, where the aim is to link entity mentions to reference vocabularies, is of utmost importance to successfully extract knowledge from clinical narratives. In this paper we present sieve-based models combined with heuristics and word embeddings and present results of our participation in the 2019 n2c2 (National NLP Clinical Challenges) shared-task on clinical concept normalization.
Year
DOI
Venue
2020
10.3233/SHTI200129
DIGITAL PERSONALIZED HEALTH AND MEDICINE
Keywords
DocType
Volume
natural language processing, clinical information extraction, clinical concept disambiguation, word embeddings, sieve-based model
Conference
270
ISSN
Citations 
PageRank 
0926-9630
0
0.34
References 
Authors
0
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
João Figueira Silva112.03
Rui Antunes200.34
João Rafael Almeida300.68
Sérgio Matos441529.51