Extracting conceptual terms from medical documents

Quanzhi Li, Yi Fang Brook Wu, Xin Chen, Razvan Stefan Bot

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Abstract

Automated biomedical concept recognition is important for biomedical document retrieval and text mining research. In this paper, we describe a two-step concept extraction technique for documents in biomedical domain. Step one includes noun phrase extraction, which can automatically extract noun phrases from medical documents. Extracted noun phrases are used as concept term candidates which become inputs of next step. Step two includes keyphrase extraction, which can automatically identify important topical terms from candidate terms. Experiments were conducted to evaluate results of both steps. The experiment results show that our noun phrase extractor is effective in identifying noun phrases from medical documents, so is the keyphrase extractor in identifying document conceptual terms.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Title of host publicationAssociation for Information Systems - 11th Americas Conference on Information Systems, AMCIS 2005
Subtitle of host publicationA Conference on a Human Scale
Pages2645-2651
Number of pages7
StatePublished - 2005
Event11th Americas Conference on Information Systems, AMCIS 2005 - Omaha, NE, United States
Duration: Aug 11 2005Aug 15 2005

Publication series

NameAssociation for Information Systems - 11th Americas Conference on Information Systems, AMCIS 2005: A Conference on a Human Scale
Volume6

Other

Other11th Americas Conference on Information Systems, AMCIS 2005
Country/TerritoryUnited States
CityOmaha, NE
Period8/11/058/15/05

All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes

  • Computer Science Applications
  • Computer Networks and Communications
  • Information Systems
  • Library and Information Sciences

Keywords

  • Conceptual term
  • Keyphrase extraction
  • Medical document
  • Noun phrase
  • Noun phrase extraction

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