Mining medical related temporal information from patients’ self-description

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to develop a new method to extract medical temporal information from online health communities. Design/methodology/approach – The authors trained a conditional random-filed model for the extraction of temporal expressions. The temporal relation identification i...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Lichao Zhu, Hangzhou Yang, Zhijun Yan
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Tsinghua University Press 2017-06-01
Series:International Journal of Crowd Science
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Online Access:https://www.emeraldinsight.com/doi/pdfplus/10.1108/IJCS-08-2017-0018