Negation Detection for Clinical Text Mining in Russian

10 Apr 2020  ·  Anastasia Funkner, Ksenia Balabaeva, Sergey Kovalchuk ·

Developing predictive modeling in medicine requires additional features from unstructured clinical texts. In Russia, there are no instruments for natural language processing to cope with problems of medical records. This paper is devoted to a module of negation detection. The corpus-free machine learning method is based on gradient boosting classifier is used to detect whether a disease is denied, not mentioned or presented in the text. The detector classifies negations for five diseases and shows average F-score from 0.81 to 0.93. The benefits of negation detection have been demonstrated by predicting the presence of surgery for patients with the acute coronary syndrome.

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