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Medical i2b2 NLP smoking challenge: the A-Life system architecture and methodology
Daniel T Heinze1, Mark L Morsch, Brian C Potter
1A-Life Medical, Inc., San Diego, CA, USA.
Abstract:
We describe the architecture of LifeCode (A-Life Medical, Inc.), a natural language processing system for free-text clinical information extraction, our methodology in applying LifeCode to the i2b2 smoking challenge, and statistical measures for performance evaluation. Due to the limited test size and the coefficient of variation in the test standard, it is difficult to draw conclusions regarding the relative efficacy of approaches that were applied to this challenge.
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