A statistical natural language processor for medical reports

Proc AMIA Symp. 1999:970-4.

Abstract

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.

MeSH terms

  • Algorithms
  • Evaluation Studies as Topic
  • Humans
  • Linguistics
  • Medical Records*
  • Natural Language Processing*
  • Radiography, Thoracic*
  • Semantics