2015
A Study of Neural Word Embeddings for Named Entity Recognition in Clinical Text.
Wu Y, Xu J, Jiang M, Zhang Y, Xu H. A Study of Neural Word Embeddings for Named Entity Recognition in Clinical Text. AMIA Annual Symposium Proceedings 2015, 2015: 1326-33. PMID: 26958273, PMCID: PMC4765694.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsNamed Entity RecognitionClinical NER systemNeural word embeddingsClinical Named Entity RecognitionWord embeddingsNER systemWord representationsI2b2 dataEntity recognitionEmbedding featuresClinical textNatural language processing researchConditional Random FieldsLanguage processing researchWord embedding featuresLarge unlabeled corpusBrown clustersNeural wordImportant patient informationFeature representationF1 scoreIntelligent monitoringCritical taskUnlabeled corpusSemantic relations
2013
Recognizing clinical entities in hospital discharge summaries using Structural Support Vector Machines with word representation features
Tang B, Cao H, Wu Y, Jiang M, Xu H. Recognizing clinical entities in hospital discharge summaries using Structural Support Vector Machines with word representation features. BMC Medical Informatics And Decision Making 2013, 13: s1. PMID: 23566040, PMCID: PMC3618243, DOI: 10.1186/1472-6947-13-s1-s1.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsStructural support vector machineWord representation featuresClinical NER tasksConditional Random FieldsSupport vector machinePerformance of MLClinical NER systemMachine learningRepresentation featuresNER systemNER taskVector machineEntity recognitionNatural language processing researchSequential labeling algorithmClinical entity recognitionLarge margin theoryClinical text processingLanguage processing researchPerformance of CRFsHighest F-measureClinical NLP researchI2b2 NLP challengeSame feature setsBetter performance