A statistical natural language processor for medical reports.
Statistical natural language processors have been the focus of much research during the past decade. The main advantage of such an approach over grammatical rule-based approaches is its scalability to new domains. We present a statistical NLP for the domain of radiology and report on methods of knowledge acquisition, parsing, semantic interpretation, and evaluation. Preliminary performance data are given. A discussion of the perceived benefit, limitations and future work is presented.
Taira
R K
RK
Department of Radiology, Children's Hospital, Seattle, WA 98105, USA.
Soderland
S G
SG
D000465:Algorithms; D005069:Evaluation Studies as Topic; D006801:Humans; D008037:Linguistics; D008499:Medical Records; D009323:Natural Language Processing; D013902:Radiography, Thoracic; D012660:Semantics