Time Expressions in Mental Health Records for Symptom Onset ExtractionShow others and affiliations
2018 (English)In: EMNLP 2018 - 9th International Workshop on Health Text Mining and Information Analysis, LOUHI 2018 - Proceedings of the Workshop, Association for Computational Linguistics, 2018, p. 183-192Conference paper, Published paper (Refereed)
Abstract [en]
For psychiatric disorders such as schizophrenia, longer durations of untreated psychosis are associated with worse intervention outcomes. Data included in electronic health records (EHRs) can be useful for retrospective clinical studies, but much of this is stored as unstructured text which cannot be directly used in computation. Natural Language Processing (NLP) methods can be used to extract this data, in order to identify symptoms and treatments from mental health records, and temporally anchor the first emergence of these. We are developing an EHR corpus annotated with time expressions, clinical entities and their relations, to be used for NLP development. In this study, we focus on the first step, identifying time expressions in EHRs for patients with schizophrenia. We developed a gold standard corpus, compared this corpus to other related corpora in terms of content and time expression prevalence, and adapted two NLP systems for extracting time expressions. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first resource annotated for temporal entities in the mental health domain.
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Association for Computational Linguistics, 2018. p. 183-192
Keywords [en]
Computational linguistics, Diseases, Clinical study, Gold standards, Health records, Long duration, Mental health, Processing method, Psychiatric disorders, Unstructured texts, Natural language processing systems
National Category
Medical and Health Sciences
Identifiers
URN: urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-314567Scopus ID: 2-s2.0-85071779041OAI: oai:DiVA.org:kth-314567DiVA, id: diva2:1674888
Conference
9th International Workshop on Health Text Mining and Information Analysis, LOUHI 2018, co-located with EMNLP 2018, 31 October 2018, Brussels, Belgium
Note
QC 20220622
Part of proceedings: ISBN 978-194808774-2
2022-06-222022-06-222022-06-25Bibliographically approved