Evidence based medicine (EBM) is the conscientious, explicit, and judicious use of current
best evidence in making decisions about the care of individual patients. Each year, a …

Purpose Many opinion-mining systems and tools have been developed to provide users
with the attitudes of people toward entities and their attributes or the overall polarities of …

The phenotyping of neurological patients involves the conversion of signs and symptoms
into machine readable codes selected from an appropriate ontology. The phenotyping of …

Objective: The objective of this study was to undertake a proof of concept that demonstrated
the use of primary care data and natural language processing and term extraction to assess …

Multiple choice questions (MCQs) are used ubiquitously; they are part of low stake, high
stake, paper-and-pencil as well as computerised examinations. Constructing high-quality …

Generation of entity coreference chains provides a means to extract linked narrative events
from clinical notes, but despite being a well-researched topic in natural language …

In this thesis, a synthesis is presented of the knowledge models required by clinical informa-
tion systems that provide decision support for longitudinal processes of care. Qualitative …

Primary care data represents the complete biopsychosocial profile of the patient and has
recently become available for secondary analysis in Ontario. This study involved extracting …

A large amount of free text is available as a source of knowledge in the biomedical field.
MetaMap is a widely used tool that identifies concepts within the UMLS in English text. In this …

Nowadays there is a huge amount of medical information that can be retrieved from different
sources, both structured and unstructured. Internet has plenty of textual sources with medical …