2021
COVID-19 SignSym: a fast adaptation of a general clinical NLP tool to identify and normalize COVID-19 signs and symptoms to OMOP common data model
Wang J, Abu-El-Rub N, Gray J, Pham H, Zhou Y, Manion F, Liu M, Song X, Xu H, Rouhizadeh M, Zhang Y. COVID-19 SignSym: a fast adaptation of a general clinical NLP tool to identify and normalize COVID-19 signs and symptoms to OMOP common data model. Journal Of The American Medical Informatics Association 2021, 28: 1275-1283. PMID: 33674830, PMCID: PMC7989301, DOI: 10.1093/jamia/ocab015.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsNatural language processing toolsCommon data modelLanguage processing toolsElectronic health recordsClinical natural language processing toolsData modelDeep learning-based modelProcessing toolsOMOP Common Data ModelPattern-based rulesObservational Medical Outcomes Partnership Common Data ModelLearning-based modelsSpecific information needsUse casesNLP toolsClinical textFree textExtensive evaluationDownloadable packageInformation needsHybrid approachResearch communityHealth recordsData sourcesHigh performance
2017
Finding useful data across multiple biomedical data repositories using DataMed
Ohno-Machado L, Sansone S, Alter G, Fore I, Grethe J, Xu H, Gonzalez-Beltran A, Rocca-Serra P, Gururaj A, Bell E, Soysal E, Zong N, Kim H. Finding useful data across multiple biomedical data repositories using DataMed. Nature Genetics 2017, 49: 816-819. PMID: 28546571, PMCID: PMC6460922, DOI: 10.1038/ng.3864.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsBiomedical data repositoriesHealth big dataData setsKnowledge discoveryBig dataMultiple repositoriesSearch enginesData indexFAIR principlesDataMedData repositoryService providersKnowledge initiativesKnowledge expertsBiomedical research communityResearch communityRepositoryScience landscapeUseful dataInteroperabilityMetadataFindabilitySetEngineData
2014
Open Source Clinical NLP - More than Any Single System.
Masanz J, Pakhomov S, Xu H, Wu S, Chute C, Liu H. Open Source Clinical NLP - More than Any Single System. AMIA Joint Summits On Translational Science Proceedings 2014, 2014: 76-82. PMID: 25954581, PMCID: PMC4419764.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchClinical NLPNLP systemsNatural language processing toolsOpen source softwareLanguage processing toolsInformation technology practicesPluggable componentsSource softwareNLP softwareProcessing capabilitiesProcessing toolsResearch communityNLPCollaborative communitySingle systemSoftwareTechnology practicesNLP activityUIMAAnnotatorsSystemApacheOngoing activityFrameworkCapability