2017
Clinical Word Sense Disambiguation with Interactive Search and Classification.
Wang Y, Zheng K, Xu H, Mei Q. Clinical Word Sense Disambiguation with Interactive Search and Classification. AMIA Annual Symposium Proceedings 2017, 2016: 2062-2071. PMID: 28269966, PMCID: PMC5333264.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsDomain knowledgeHuman expertsWSD modelClinical textCurrent active learning methodsWord sense disambiguation systemNatural language processing applicationsMachine learning processLanguage processing applicationsWord sense disambiguationActive learning methodsContextual wordsInteractive searchWord ambiguityLearning methodsSense disambiguationProcessing applicationsAmbiguous instancesSearch processDisambiguation systemEvaluation corpusLearning processExpertsQueriesClassifier
2015
A study of active learning methods for named entity recognition in clinical text
Chen Y, Lasko T, Mei Q, Denny J, Xu H. A study of active learning methods for named entity recognition in clinical text. Journal Of Biomedical Informatics 2015, 58: 11-18. PMID: 26385377, PMCID: PMC4934373, DOI: 10.1016/j.jbi.2015.09.010.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsClinical NER tasksMachine learningAnnotation costF-measureEntity recognitionNER taskActive learningLearning methodsI2b2/VA NLP challengeNatural language processing systemsPerformance of MLClinical natural language processing (NLP) systemsSequential labeling tasksSupervised machine learningAL methodsLanguage processing systemDiversity-based methodReal-time settingActive learning methodsNew AL methodsNER corpusDomain expertsUncertainty samplingAnnotation effortClinical text