Towards ontology enrichment with treatment relations extracted from medical abstracts

Chew Hung Lee*, Jin Cheon Na, Christopher Khoo

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Abstract

In this paper, we present the results of experiments identifying the drug treatment relation and drug treatment attributes like dosage, treatment frequency and duration from abstracts of medical publications using linguistic patterns. The approach uses an automatic linguistic pattern construction algorithm after the dataset has been semantically annotated. The automatically constructed patterns were able to identify treatment relations and their attributes with varying success. We observe that the simple (or naive) treatment patterns performs much better than the non-naïve treatment patterns in identifying sentences with drug treatment relationship in both cancer and non-cancer drug therapy domain. However the drug dosage, frequency and duration patterns performed much better in the identification of relationships in the cancer drug therapy domain than the non-cancer drug therapy domain.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationDigital Libraries
Subtitle of host publicationAchievements, Challenges and Opportunities - 9th International Conference on Asian Digital Libraries, ICADL 2006, Proceedings
PublisherSpringer Verlag
Pages419-428
Number of pages10
ISBN (Print)3540493751, 9783540493754
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2006
Externally publishedYes
Event9th International Conference on Asian Digital Libraries, ICADL 2006 - Kyoto, Japan
Duration: Nov 27 2006Nov 30 2006

Publication series

NameLecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
Volume4312 LNCS
ISSN (Print)0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)1611-3349

Conference

Conference9th International Conference on Asian Digital Libraries, ICADL 2006
Country/TerritoryJapan
CityKyoto
Period11/27/0611/30/06

ASJC Scopus Subject Areas

  • Theoretical Computer Science
  • General Computer Science

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