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UTH_CCB: A Report for SemEval 2014 – Task 7 Analysis of Clinical Text

  • Yaoyun Zhang
  • , Jingqi Wang
  • , Buzhou Tang
  • , Yonghui Wu
  • , Min Jiang
  • , Yukun Chen
  • , Hua Xu*
  • *Corresponding author for this work

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Abstract

This work describes the participation of the University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston (UTHealth) team on the SemEval 2014 – Task 7 analysis of clinical text challenge. The task consisted of two subtasks: (1) disorder entity recognition, recognizing mentions of disorder concepts; (2) disorder entity encoding, mapping each mention to a unique Concept Unique Identifier (CUI) defined in Unified Medical Language System (UMLS). We developed three ensemble learning approaches for recognizing disorder entities and a Vector Space Model based method for encoding. Our approaches achieved top rank in both subtasks, with the best F measure of 0.813 for entity recognition and the best accuracy of 74.1% for encoding, indicating the proposed approaches are promising.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publication8th International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation, SemEval 2014 - co-located with the 25th International Conference on Computational Linguistics, COLING 2014, Proceedings
EditorsPreslav Nakov, Torsten Zesch
PublisherAssociation for Computational Linguistics (ACL)
Pages802-806
Number of pages5
ISBN (Electronic)9781941643242
DOIs
StatePublished - 2014
Externally publishedYes
Event8th International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation, SemEval 2014 - co-located with the 25th International Conference on Computational Linguistics, COLING 2014 - Dublin, Ireland
Duration: 23 Aug 201424 Aug 2014

Publication series

Name8th International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation, SemEval 2014 - co-located with the 25th International Conference on Computational Linguistics, COLING 2014, Proceedings

Conference

Conference8th International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation, SemEval 2014 - co-located with the 25th International Conference on Computational Linguistics, COLING 2014
Country/TerritoryIreland
CityDublin
Period23/08/1424/08/14

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