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Truecasing clinical narratives.

Markus Kreuzthaler1, Stefan Schulz

  • 1Institute for Medical Informatics, Statistics and Documentation, Medical University of Graz, Austria.

Studies in Health Technology and Informatics
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This study developed automatic truecasing for medical texts, achieving 81.3% accuracy for acronyms and 98.5% for normal words using web search data.

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Published on: September 20, 2018

Area of Science:

  • Natural Language Processing
  • Medical Informatics

Background:

  • Many legacy medical texts are fully capitalized, reducing readability.
  • German medical texts, like pathology reports, often contain unique terminology and compound words.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To pilot an automatic truecasing system for German medical texts.
  • To leverage the World Wide Web as a corpus for collecting capitalization information.

Main Methods:

  • Submitted token bigrams from German pathology reports to a web search engine.
  • Collected case information from search engine results to support truecasing.

Main Results:

  • Achieved 81.3% accuracy for acronyms and 98.5% accuracy for normal words.
  • Demonstrated effectiveness despite a high proportion of non-dictionary words in the corpus.
  • Identified limitations in spelling correction, with some substitutions altering meaning.

Conclusions:

  • Web-based truecasing shows promise for improving medical text readability.
  • Future work should address the dependency on proprietary search engines, exploring cloud-based n-gram services.