no code implementations • 4 Aug 2021 • Greg M. Silverman, Raymond L. Finzel, Michael V. Heinz, Jake Vasilakes, Jacob C. Solinsky, Reed McEwan, Benjamin C. Knoll, Christopher J. Tignanelli, Hongfang Liu, Hua Xu, Xiaoqian Jiang, Genevieve B. Melton, Serguei VS Pakhomov
Our objective in this study is to investigate the behavior of Boolean operators on combining annotation output from multiple Natural Language Processing (NLP) systems across multiple corpora and to assess how filtering by aggregation of Unified Medical Language System (UMLS) Metathesaurus concepts affects system performance for Named Entity Recognition (NER) of UMLS concepts.