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Using Enriched Samples for Semi-Automated Vocabulary Expansion to Identify Rare Events in Clinical Text: Sexual Orientation as a Use Case

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We demonstrate the utility of concept lexicon expansion and evaluation using enriched samples of patients and documents with sexual orientation as a use case for rare event detection in electronic… Click to show full abstract

We demonstrate the utility of concept lexicon expansion and evaluation using enriched samples of patients and documents with sexual orientation as a use case for rare event detection in electronic medical records. Using this approach, we found 7 additional words and 21 misspellings beyond our initial set of five seed words. We can use the expanded vocabulary to further develop a full natural language processing system to identify instances where sexual orientation is documented.

Keywords: use case; enriched samples; sexual orientation; orientation; orientation use; using enriched

Journal Title: Studies in health technology and informatics
Year Published: 2019

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