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    Named Entity Recognition

    This chapter provides an overview of named entity recognition (NER) from biomedical text, which is an algorithmic approach to identifying the span of text that represents medical concepts and their class. Read...

    Murthy V. Devarakonda, Kalpana Raja, Hua Xu in Natural Language Processing in Biomedicine (2024)

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    Medical Concept Normalization

    Medical concept normalization, which maps clinical entities to concepts in standard terminology, is essential for supporting downstream computational applications in clinical settings. This chapter starts with...

    Hua Xu, Dina Demner Fushman, Na Hong in Natural Language Processing in Biomedicine (2024)

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    Relation Extraction

    This chapter introduces methods for extracting the relations between entities mentioned in electronic health records, scientific literature, reports, and similar biomedical text. The contents of this chapter w...

    Murthy V. Devarakonda, Kalpana Raja, Hua Xu in Natural Language Processing in Biomedicine (2024)