title: Why discourse structures in medical reports matter for the validity of automatically generated text knowledge bases.
abstract: The automatic analysis of medical full-texts currently suffers from neglecting text coherence phenomena such as reference relations between discourse units. This has unwarranted effects on the description adequacy of medical knowledge bases automatically generated from texts. The resulting representation bias can be characterized in terms of artificially fragmented, incomplete and invalid knowledge structures. We discuss three types of textual phenomena (pronominal and nominal anaphora, as well as textual ellipsis) and outline basic methodologies how to deal with them.
authors.affiliation: Text Knowledge Engineering Lab, Freiburg University, Germany.
authors.forename: U
authors.initials: U
authors.lastname: Hahn
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Romacker
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Schulz
mesh_terms: D001185:Artificial Intelligence; D004064:Digestive System / Q000473:pathology; D005767:Gastrointestinal Diseases / Q000145:classification / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000473:pathology; D006801:Humans; D016347:Medical Records Systems, Computerized / Q000145:classification*; D009323:Natural Language Processing; D010338:Pathology, Clinical / Q000145:classification* / Q000458:organization & administration; D012660:Semantics