Extracting semantics in a clinical scenario

  • Authors:
  • Yitao Zhang;Jon Patrick

  • Affiliations:
  • University of Sydney, NSW, Australia;University of Sydney, NSW, Australia

  • Venue:
  • ACSW '07 Proceedings of the fifth Australasian symposium on ACSW frontiers - Volume 68
  • Year:
  • 2007

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Abstract

Unlike abstracts, full articles of clinical case studies provide more detailed profiles of a patient, such as signs and symptoms, and important laboratory test results of the patient from the diagnostic and treatment procedures. This paper proposes a novel markup tag set to cover a wide variety of semantics in the description of clinical case studies in the clinical literature. A manually annotated corpus which consists of 75 clinical reports with 5,117 sentences has been created and a sentence classification system is reported as the preliminary attempt to exploit the fast growing online repositories of clinical case reports.