Objective To create a sense inventory of abbreviations and acronyms from clinical texts.
Methods The most frequently occurring abbreviations and acronyms from 352 267 dictated …

Background Previous research has developed methods to construct acronym sense
inventories from a single institutional corpus. Although beneficial, a sense inventory …

Objective: The goal of this study was to develop a practical framework for recognizing and
disambiguating clinical abbreviations, thereby improving current clinical natural language …

Objective: To develop methods for building corpus-specific sense inventories of
abbreviations occurring in clinical documents. Design: A corpus of internal medicine …

Objectives Although acronyms and abbreviations in clinical text are used widely on a daily
basis, relatively little research has focused upon word sense disambiguation (WSD) of …

Various natural language processing (NLP) systems have been developed to unlock patient
information from narrative clinical notes in order to support knowledge based applications …

Objective To characterise empirical instances of Unified Medical Language System (UMLS)
Metathesaurus term strings in a large clinical corpus, and to illustrate what types of term …

Abbreviations are widely used in clinical documents and they are often ambiguous. Building
a list of possible senses (also called sense inventory) for each ambiguous abbreviation is …

Objective: To save time, healthcare providers frequently use abbreviations while authoring
clinical documents. Nevertheless, abbreviations that authors deem unambiguous often …

Use of abbreviations and acronyms is pervasive in clinical reports despite many efforts to
limit the use of ambiguous and unsanctioned abbreviations and acronyms. Due to the fact …