Clinical Named Entity Recognition Using Deep Learning Models

• Published in: AMIA ... Annual Symposium proceedings Vol. 2017; pp. 1812 - 1819
• Main Authors: Wu, Yonghui, Jiang, Min, Xu, Jun, Zhi, Degui, Xu, Hua
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States American Medical Informatics Association 2017

Clinical Named Entity Recognition (NER) is a critical natural language processing (NLP) task to extract important concepts (named entities) from clinical narratives. Researchers have extensively investigated machine learning models for clinical NER. Recently, there have been increasing efforts to ap...