Shivade, Chaitanya
de Marneffe, Marie-Catherine
[UCL]
Fosler-Lussier, Eric
Lai, Albert M.
Gradable adjectives are inherently vague and are used by clinicians to document medical interpretations (e.g., severe reaction, mild symptoms). We present a comprehensive study of gradable adjectives used in the clinical domain. We automatically identify gradable adjectives and demonstrate that they have a substantial presence in clinical text. Further, we show that there is a specific pattern associated with their usage, where certain medical concepts are more likely to be described using these adjectives than others. Interpretation of statements using such adjectives is a barrier in medical decision making. Therefore, we use a simple probabilistic model to ground their meaning based on their usage in context.
Bibliographic reference |
Shivade, Chaitanya ; de Marneffe, Marie-Catherine ; Fosler-Lussier, Eric ; Lai, Albert M.. Identification, characterization, and grounding of gradable terms
in clinical text.Proceedings of the 15th Workshop on Biomedical Natural Language Processing (Berlin, Germany, 8/2016). In: Proceedings of the 15th Workshop on Biomedical Natural Language Processing., |
Permanent URL |
http://hdl.handle.net/2078.1/278962 |