Word sense disambiguation across two domains: Biomedical literature and clinical notes

Guergana K. Savova, Anni R. Coden, Igor L. Sominsky, Rie Johnson, Philip V. Ogren, Piet C.de Groen, Christopher G. Chute

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Abstract

The aim of this study is to explore the word sense disambiguation (WSD) problem across two biomedical domains-biomedical literature and clinical notes. A supervised machine learning technique was used for the WSD task. One of the challenges addressed is the creation of a suitable clinical corpus with manual sense annotations. This corpus in conjunction with the WSD set from the National Library of Medicine provided the basis for the evaluation of our method across multiple domains and for the comparison of our results to published ones. Noteworthy is that only 20% of the most relevant ambiguous terms within a domain overlap between the two domains, having more senses associated with them in the clinical space than in the biomedical literature space. Experimentation with 28 different feature sets rendered a system achieving an average F-score of 0.82 on the clinical data and 0.86 on the biomedical literature.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Pages (from-to)1088-1100
Number of pages13
JournalJournal of Biomedical Informatics
Volume41
Issue number6
DOIs
StatePublished - Dec 2008
Externally publishedYes

Keywords

  • Artificial intelligence
  • Biomedical natural language processing
  • Information extraction
  • Machine learning
  • Natural language processing
  • Word sense disambiguation

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Computer Science Applications
  • Health Informatics

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