Structured Information Extraction from Medical Texts in Bulgarian

Boytcheva, Svetla

doi:10.2478/cait-2012-0030

Abstract

This paper presents an approach for Information Extraction (IE) from Patient Records (PRs) in Bulgarian. The specific terminology and lack of resources in electronic format are some of the obstacles that make the task of current patient status data extraction in a structured format quite challenging. The usage of N-grams, collocations and words’ distances allows us to cope with this problem and to extract automatically the attribute-value pairs with relatively high precision.

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