Improving clinical named entity recognition in Chinese using the graphical and phonetic feature

Abstract Background Clinical Named Entity Recognition is to find the name of diseases, body parts and other related terms from the given text. Because Chinese language is quite different with English language, the machine cannot simply get the graphical and phonetic information form Chinese characte...

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Main Authors: Yifei Wang, Sophia Ananiadou, Jun’ichi Tsujii
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2019-12-01
Series:BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1186/s12911-019-0980-z