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Automatic translation of clinical researcher data requests to executable database queries is instrumental to an effective interface between clinical researchers and “Big Clinical Data”. A necessary step towards this goal is to parse ample temporal expressions in free-text researcher requests. This paper reports a novel algorithm called TEXer. It uses heuristic rule and pattern learning for extracting and normalizing temporal expressions in researcher requests. Based on 400 real clinical queries with human annotations, we compared our method with four baseline methods. TEXer achieved a precision of 0.945 and a recall of 0.858, outperforming all the baseline methods. We conclude that TEXer is an effective method for temporal expression extraction from free-text clinical data requests.
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Hao, T., Rusanov, A., Weng, C. (2013). Extracting and Normalizing Temporal Expressions in Clinical Data Requests from Researchers. In: Zeng, D., et al. Smart Health. ICSH 2013. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 8040. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-39844-5_7
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