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Towards Structuring Episodes in Patient History

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Conceptual Structures for Discovering Knowledge (ICCS 2011)

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This article discusses current results in automatic Information Extraction (IE) of temporal markers from hospital Patient Records (PRs) texts. The aim is to construct a temporal sequence of important facts about phases in disease development, by recognising the main events that are described in the anamnesis (case history). We consider the conceptual structure of "episode", which is designed as a feature-value template enabling the further formalisation of the case history via generation of simple Conceptual Graph (CG). Evaluation results assessing the recognition of temporal markers are presented as well.

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  1. Institute of Information and Communication Technologies, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Sofia, Bulgaria

    Galia Angelova & Svetla Boytcheva

  2. University for Library Studies and Information Technology, Sofia, Bulgaria

    Svetla Boytcheva

  3. University Specialised Hospital for Active Treatment of Endocrinology, Medical University Sofia, Bulgaria

    Dimitar Tcharaktchiev

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  1. Sheffield Hallam University, 153 Arundel St., S1 2NU, Sheffield, UK

    Simon Andrews , Simon Polovina  & Babak Akhgar ,  & 

  2. University of Derby, Kedleston Road, DE22 1GB, Derby, UK

    Richard Hill

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Angelova, G., Boytcheva, S., Tcharaktchiev, D. (2011). Towards Structuring Episodes in Patient History. In: Andrews, S., Polovina, S., Hill, R., Akhgar, B. (eds) Conceptual Structures for Discovering Knowledge. ICCS 2011. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 6828. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-22688-5_22

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