Journal article
Normalizing acronyms and abbreviations to aid patient understanding of clinical texts: ShARe/CLEF eHealth Challenge 2013, Task 2
DL Mowery, BR South, L Christensen, J Leng, LM Peltonen, S Salanterä, H Suominen, D Martinez, S Velupillai, N Elhadad, G Savova, S Pradhan, WW Chapman
Journal of Biomedical Semantics | BMC | Published : 2016
Abstract
Background: The ShARe/CLEF eHealth challenge lab aims to stimulate development of natural language processing and information retrieval technologies to aid patients in understanding their clinical reports. In clinical text, acronyms and abbreviations, also referenced as short forms, can be difficult for patients to understand. For one of three shared tasks in 2013 (Task 2), we generated a reference standard of clinical short forms normalized to the Unified Medical Language System. This reference standard can be used to improve patient understanding by linking to web sources with lay descriptions of annotated short forms or by substituting short forms with a more simplified, lay term. Methods..
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Awarded by Australian Research Council
Funding Acknowledgements
We extend our gratitude to our funding sources, natural language processing experts, and annotators for their invaluable contributions. We thank Ken Pierce for working with us to complete task 2 data requests from Physionet.org and Qing Zeng for making the Consumer Health Vocabulary available to the community. We appreciate the useful feedback and suggestions from our anonymous reviewers. This work was partially funded by NICTA, which was supported by the Australian Government through the Department of Communications and the Australian Research Council through the ICT Center of Excellence Program, the CLEF Initiative, European Science Foundation (ESF) project ELIAS, Khresmoi project, funded by the European Union Seventh Framework Programme (FP7/2007-2013) under grant agreement no 257528, ShARe project funded by the US National Institutes of Health (R01GM090187), US Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) Consortium for Healthcare Informatics Research (CHIR), US Office of the National Coordinator of Healthcare Technology, Strategic Health IT Advanced Research Projects (SHARP) 90TR0002, Vardal Foundation (Sweden), Academy of Finland (140323), and National Library of Medicine 5T15LM007059.