Functional evaluation of out-of-the-box text-mining tools for data-mining tasks.
The trade-off between the speed and simplicity of dictionary-based term recognition and the richer linguistic information provided by more advanced natural language processing (NLP) is an area of active discussion in clinical informatics. In this paper, we quantify this trade-off among text processing systems that make different trade-offs between speed and linguistic understanding. We tested both types of systems in three clinical research tasks: phase IV safety profiling of a [...]
Author(s): Jung, Kenneth, LePendu, Paea, Iyer, Srinivasan, Bauer-Mehren, Anna, Percha, Bethany, Shah, Nigam H
DOI: 10.1136/amiajnl-2014-002902