Automatically extracting information needs from complex clinical questions
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Automatically extracting information needs from complex clinical questions
OBJECTIVE Clinicians pose complex clinical questions when seeing patients, and identifying the answers to those questions in a timely manner helps improve the quality of patient care. We report here on two natural language processing models, namely, automatic topic assignment and keyword identification, that together automatically and effectively extract information needs from ad hoc clinical q...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Biomedical Informatics
سال: 2010
ISSN: 1532-0464
DOI: 10.1016/j.jbi.2010.07.007