title: Syntactic parsing of medical reports using evolutionary optimization.
abstract: We report on a syntactic parser for medical reports which uses a genetic algorithm to efficiently identify the highest ranking parse configuration based on a scoring scheme developed as part of our prior work. The approach was tested on a set of 250 sentences from the domain of radiology. Performance time and comparison to exhaustive methods are given.
authors.affiliation: Department of Radiation Oncology, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA.
authors.forename: Paul S
authors.initials: PS
authors.lastname: Cho
authors.forename: Ricky K
authors.initials: RK
authors.lastname: Taira
authors.forename: Hooshang
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Kangarloo
mesh_terms: D000465:Algorithms; D006801:Humans; D008037:Linguistics; D008499:Medical Records; D009323:Natural Language Processing; D011871:Radiology