2017
CLAMP – a toolkit for efficiently building customized clinical natural language processing pipelines
Soysal E, Wang J, Jiang M, Wu Y, Pakhomov S, Liu H, Xu H. CLAMP – a toolkit for efficiently building customized clinical natural language processing pipelines. Journal Of The American Medical Informatics Association 2017, 25: 331-336. PMID: 29186491, PMCID: PMC7378877, DOI: 10.1093/jamia/ocx132.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchGraphic user interfaceUser interfaceUser-friendly graphic user interfaceNatural language processing systemsClinical natural language processing (NLP) systemsNatural language processing pipelineKnowledge Extraction SystemLanguage processing pipelineClinical Text AnalysisLanguage processing systemNLP componentsNLP toolkitInformation extractionNLP pipelineUse casesEntity recognitionClinical textEnd usersNLP communityProcessing pipelineProcessing systemIndividual tasksIndividual applicationsText analysisBetter performance
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