Development and evaluation of task-specific NLP framework in China

Stud Health Technol Inform. 2015:216:1031.

Abstract

Natural language processing (NLP) has been designed to convert narrative text into structured data. Although some general NLP architectures have been developed, a task-specific NLP framework to facilitate the effective use of data is still a challenge in lexical resource limited regions, such as China. The purpose of this study is to design and develop a task-specific NLP framework to extract targeted information from particular documents by adopting dedicated algorithms on current limited lexical resources. In this framework, a shared and evolving ontology mechanism was designed. The result has shown that such a free text driven platform will accelerate the NLP technology acceptance in China.

Publication types

  • Evaluation Study

MeSH terms

  • Biological Ontologies*
  • China
  • Data Mining / methods*
  • Electronic Health Records / classification*
  • Machine Learning*
  • Natural Language Processing*
  • Terminology as Topic
  • Vocabulary, Controlled*