scholarly journals Data-driven materials research enabled by natural language processing and information extraction

2020 ◽  
Vol 7 (4) ◽  
pp. 041317
Author(s):  
Elsa A. Olivetti ◽  
Jacqueline M. Cole ◽  
Edward Kim ◽  
Olga Kononova ◽  
Gerbrand Ceder ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Natural Language Processing ◽  
Natural Language ◽  
Information Extraction ◽  
Language Processing ◽  
Data Driven ◽  
Materials Research

A Review and evaluation of Machine Translation methods for Lumasaaba

2020 ◽  
pp. 3-17
Author(s):  
Peter Nabende
Keyword(s):  
Natural Language Processing ◽  
Natural Language ◽  
Machine Translation ◽  
Language Processing ◽  
Research Area ◽  
Data Driven ◽  
East African ◽  
Data Set ◽  
African Languages ◽  
Translation Methods

Natural Language Processing for under-resourced languages is now a mainstream research area. However, there are limited studies on Natural Language Processing applications for many indigenous East African languages. As a contribution to covering the current gap of knowledge, this paper focuses on evaluating the application of well-established machine translation methods for one heavily under-resourced indigenous East African language called Lumasaaba. Specifically, we review the most common machine translation methods in the context of Lumasaaba including both rule-based and data-driven methods. Then we apply a state of the art data-driven machine translation method to learn models for automating translation between Lumasaaba and English using a very limited data set of parallel sentences. Automatic evaluation results show that a transformer-based Neural Machine Translation model architecture leads to consistently better BLEU scores than the recurrent neural network-based models. Moreover, the automatically generated translations can be comprehended to a reasonable extent and are usually associated with the source language input.

scholarly journals Natural language processing for automated annotation of medication mentions in primary care visit conversations

JAMIA Open ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 4 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Craig H Ganoe ◽  
Weiyi Wu ◽  
Paul J Barr ◽  
William Haslett ◽  
Michelle D Dannenberg ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Primary Care ◽  
Natural Language Processing ◽  
Natural Language ◽  
Information Extraction ◽  
Language Processing ◽  
Primary Care Visit ◽  
Data Set ◽  
Test Set ◽  
Medication Information ◽  
Care Visit

Abstract Objectives The objective of this study is to build and evaluate a natural language processing approach to identify medication mentions in primary care visit conversations between patients and physicians. Materials and Methods Eight clinicians contributed to a data set of 85 clinic visit transcripts, and 10 transcripts were randomly selected from this data set as a development set. Our approach utilizes Apache cTAKES and Unified Medical Language System controlled vocabulary to generate a list of medication candidates in the transcribed text and then performs multiple customized filters to exclude common false positives from this list while including some additional common mentions of the supplements and immunizations. Results Sixty-five transcripts with 1121 medication mentions were randomly selected as an evaluation set. Our proposed method achieved an F-score of 85.0% for identifying the medication mentions in the test set, significantly outperforming existing medication information extraction systems for medical records with F-scores ranging from 42.9% to 68.9% on the same test set. Discussion Our medication information extraction approach for primary care visit conversations showed promising results, extracting about 27% more medication mentions from our evaluation set while eliminating many false positives in comparison to existing baseline systems. We made our approach publicly available on the web as an open-source software. Conclusion Integration of our annotation system with clinical recording applications has the potential to improve patients’ understanding and recall of key information from their clinic visits, and, in turn, to positively impact health outcomes.

Abstract 165: Automated Stroke-Related Information Extraction From Diagnostic Imaging Reports Using Natural Language Processing

Stroke ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 51 (Suppl_1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Zhongyu Anna Liu ◽  
Muhammad Mamdani ◽  
Richard Aviv ◽  
Chloe Pou-Prom ◽  
Amy Yu
Keyword(s):  
Natural Language Processing ◽  
Diagnostic Imaging ◽  
Natural Language ◽  
Information Extraction ◽  
Language Processing ◽  
Ct Perfusion ◽  
Training Sample ◽  
Free Text ◽  
Validation Set ◽  
Proximal Occlusion

Introduction: Diagnostic imaging reports contain important data for stroke surveillance and clinical research but converting a large amount of free-text data into structured data with manual chart abstraction is resource-intensive. We determined the accuracy of CHARTextract, a natural language processing (NLP) tool, to extract relevant stroke-related attributes from full reports of computed tomograms (CT), CT angiograms (CTA), and CT perfusion (CTP) performed at a tertiary stroke centre. Methods: We manually extracted data from full reports of 1,320 consecutive CT/CTA/CTP performed between October 2017 and January 2019 in patients presenting with acute stroke. Trained chart abstractors collected data on the presence of anterior proximal occlusion, basilar occlusion, distal intracranial occlusion, established ischemia, haemorrhage, the laterality of these lesions, and ASPECT scores, all of which were used as a reference standard. Reports were then randomly split into a training set (n= 921) and validation set (n= 399). We used CHARTextract to extract the same attributes by creating rule-based information extraction pipelines. The rules were human-defined and created through an iterative process in the training sample and then validated in the validation set. Results: The prevalence of anterior proximal occlusion was 12.3% in the dataset (n=86 left, n=72 right, and n=4 bilateral). In the training sample, CHARTextract identified this attribute with an overall accuracy of 97.3% (PPV 84.1% and NPV 99.4%, sensitivity 95.5% and specificity 97.5%). In the validation set, the overall accuracy was 95.2% (PPV 76.3% and NPV 98.5%, sensitivity 90.0% and specificity 96.0%). Conclusions: We showed that CHARTextract can identify the presence of anterior proximal vessel occlusion with high accuracy, suggesting that NLP can be used to automate the process of data collection for stroke research. We will present the accuracy of CHARTextract for the remaining neurological attributes at ISC 2020.

Natural Language Processing-Based Information Extraction and Abstraction for Lease Documents

2020 ◽  
pp. 170-187
Author(s):  
Sumathi S. ◽  
Rajkumar S. ◽  
Indumathi S.
Keyword(s):  
Natural Language Processing ◽  
Natural Language ◽  
Information Extraction ◽  
Language Processing ◽  
Data Extraction ◽  
Easy Access ◽  
Property A ◽  
Key Events

Lease abstraction is the method of compartmentalization of key data from a lease document. Lease document for a property contains key business, money, and legal data about a property. A lease abstract report contains details concerning the property location and basic lease details, price schedules, key events, terms and conditions, automobile parking arrangements, and landowner and tenant obligations. Abstracting a true estate contract into electronic type facilitates easy access to key data, exchanging the tedious method of reading the whole contents of the contract every time. Language process may be used for data extraction and abstraction of knowledge from lease documents.

scholarly journals Natural Language Processing Based Method for Clustering and Analysis of Aviation Safety Narratives

Aerospace ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 7 (10) ◽  
pp. 143
Author(s):  
Rodrigo L. Rose ◽  
Tejas G. Puranik ◽  
Dimitri N. Mavris
Keyword(s):  
Natural Language Processing ◽  
Natural Language ◽  
Language Processing ◽  
Safety Data ◽  
Aviation Safety ◽  
Data Driven ◽  
Flight Safety ◽  
Commercial Aviation ◽  
Unique Challenge ◽  
Aviation Safety Reporting System

The complexity of commercial aviation operations has grown substantially in recent years, together with a diversification of techniques for collecting and analyzing flight data. As a result, data-driven frameworks for enhancing flight safety have grown in popularity. Data-driven techniques offer efficient and repeatable exploration of patterns and anomalies in large datasets. Text-based flight safety data presents a unique challenge in its subjectivity, and relies on natural language processing tools to extract underlying trends from narratives. In this paper, a methodology is presented for the analysis of aviation safety narratives based on text-based accounts of in-flight events and categorical metadata parameters which accompany them. An extensive pre-processing routine is presented, including a comparison between numeric models of textual representation for the purposes of document classification. A framework for categorizing and visualizing narratives is presented through a combination of k-means clustering and 2-D mapping with t-Distributed Stochastic Neighbor Embedding (t-SNE). A cluster post-processing routine is developed for identifying driving factors in each cluster and building a hierarchical structure of cluster and sub-cluster labels. The Aviation Safety Reporting System (ASRS), which includes over a million de-identified voluntarily submitted reports describing aviation safety incidents for commercial flights, is analyzed as a case study for the methodology. The method results in the identification of 10 major clusters and a total of 31 sub-clusters. The identified groupings are post-processed through metadata-based statistical analysis of the learned clusters. The developed method shows promise in uncovering trends from clusters that are not evident in existing anomaly labels in the data and offers a new tool for obtaining insights from text-based safety data that complement existing approaches.

scholarly journals Generating Phrasal and Sentential Paraphrases: A Survey of Data-Driven Methods

2010 ◽  
Vol 36 (3) ◽  
pp. 341-387 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nitin Madnani ◽  
Bonnie J. Dorr
Keyword(s):  
Natural Language Processing ◽  
Natural Language ◽  
Recent Work ◽  
Language Processing ◽  
Data Driven ◽  
Future Trends ◽  
Automatic Construction ◽  
Work Done ◽  
Paraphrase Generation ◽  
Potential Use

The task of paraphrasing is inherently familiar to speakers of all languages. Moreover, the task of automatically generating or extracting semantic equivalences for the various units of language—words, phrases, and sentences—is an important part of natural language processing (NLP) and is being increasingly employed to improve the performance of several NLP applications. In this article, we attempt to conduct a comprehensive and application-independent survey of data-driven phrasal and sentential paraphrase generation methods, while also conveying an appreciation for the importance and potential use of paraphrases in the field of NLP research. Recent work done in manual and automatic construction of paraphrase corpora is also examined. We also discuss the strategies used for evaluating paraphrase generation techniques and briefly explore some future trends in paraphrase generation.

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