Abstract:
OBJECTIVE:The goal of this study is to investigate entity recognition within Electronic Health Records (EHRs) focusing on Spanish and Swedish. Of particular importance is a robust representation of the entities. In our case, we utilized unsupervised methods to generate such representations. METHODS:The significance of this work stands on its experimental layout. The experiments were carried out under the same conditions for both languages. Several classification approaches were explored: maximum probability, CRF, Perceptron and SVM. The classifiers were enhanced by means of ensembles of semantic spaces and ensembles of Brown trees. In order to mitigate sparsity of data, without a significant increase in the dimension of the decision space, we propose the use of clustered approaches of the hierarchical Brown clustering represented by trees and vector quantization for each semantic space. RESULTS:The results showed that the semi-supervised approaches significantly improved standard supervised techniques for both languages. Moreover, clustering the semantic spaces contributed to the quality of the entity recognition while keeping the dimension of the feature-space two orders of magnitude lower than when directly using the semantic spaces. CONCLUSIONS:The contributions of this study are: (a) a set of thorough experiments that enable comparisons regarding the influence of different types of features on different classifiers, exploring two languages other than English; and (b) the use of ensembles of clusters of Brown trees and semantic spaces on EHRs to tackle the problem of scarcity of available annotated data.
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J Biomed Informjournal_title
Journal of biomedical informaticsauthors
Pérez A,Weegar R,Casillas A,Gojenola K,Oronoz M,Dalianis Hdoi
10.1016/j.jbi.2017.05.009subject
Has Abstractpub_date
2017-07-01 00:00:00pages
16-30eissn
1532-0464issn
1532-0480pii
S1532-0464(17)30104-1journal_volume
71pub_type
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