Agile text mining for the 2014 i2b2/UTHealth Cardiac risk factors challenge

James Cormack*, Chinmoy Nath, David Milward, Kalpana Raja, Siddhartha R. Jonnalagadda

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    Abstract

    This paper describes the use of an agile text mining platform (Linguamatics' Interactive Information Extraction Platform, I2E) to extract document-level cardiac risk factors in patient records as defined in the i2b2/UTHealth 2014 challenge. The approach uses a data-driven rule-based methodology with the addition of a simple supervised classifier. We demonstrate that agile text mining allows for rapid optimization of extraction strategies, while post-processing can leverage annotation guidelines, corpus statistics and logic inferred from the gold standard data. We also show how data imbalance in a training set affects performance. Evaluation of this approach on the test data gave an F-Score of 91.7%, one percent behind the top performing system.

    Original languageEnglish (US)
    Pages (from-to)S120-S127
    JournalJournal of Biomedical Informatics
    Volume58
    DOIs
    StatePublished - Dec 1 2015

    Keywords

    • Clinical natural language processing
    • Information extraction
    • Text mining

    ASJC Scopus subject areas

    • Health Informatics
    • Computer Science Applications

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