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Master of Public Health

A long journey to short abbreviations: developing an open-source framework for clinical abbreviation recognition and disambiguation (CARD).

AUTHORS

Wu Y , Denny JC , Rosenbloom ST , Miller RA , Giuse DA , Wang L , Blanquicett C , Soysal E , Xu J , Xu H , . Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association : JAMIA. 2016 8 18; ().

ABSTRACT

The goal of this study was to develop a practical framework for recognizing and disambiguating clinical abbreviations, thereby improving current clinical natural language processing (NLP) systems’ capability to handle abbreviations in clinical narratives.

The goal of this study was to develop a practical framework for recognizing and disambiguating clinical abbreviations, thereby improving current clinical natural language processing (NLP) systems’ capability to handle abbreviations in clinical narratives.

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