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Supporting Non-NLP Experts in Creating Annotation Schemas for Extraction of Clinical Concepts . Wendy W. Chapman, PhD. Department of Biomedical Informatics University of Utah. Motivation. Common information models Enable interoperability Guide non-NLP experts in developing NLP apps.
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Supporting Non-NLP Experts in Creating Annotation Schemas for Extraction of Clinical Concepts Wendy W. Chapman, PhD Department of Biomedical Informatics University of Utah
Motivation Common information models • Enableinteroperability • Guide non-NLP experts in developing NLP apps
Creating Domain Knowledge Bases for NLP User Domain Knowledge Base Schema Ontology Knowledge Author Domain Ontologies Modifier Ontology
Creating Domain Knowledge Bases for NLP User Domain Knowledge Base Schema Ontology Knowledge Author Domain Ontologies Modifier Ontology
Schema Ontology Semantic types (from cTAKES type system) • Allergy • Disease/Disorder • Encounter • Finding • Medication • Procedure/Intervention • Research Activity • Sign/ Symptom • Social History • Test
Creating Domain Knowledge Bases for NLP User Domain Knowledge Base Schema Ontology Knowledge Author Domain Ontologies Modifier Ontology
Modifier Ontology Allowable modifiers For each clinical element Modifiers are important for interpreting text • Chest radiograph confirms pneumonia • Family history of pneumonia • No evidence of pneumonia
Modifier Ontology Semantic Modifiers Linguistic Modifiers Negation Uncertainty Conditional Experiencer Future Historical • Dosage • Duration • Form • Frequency • Route • Status Change • Anatomic location • …
Modifier Ontology • Value Sets • NegEx and ConText lexicon • Value sets from existing ontologies/vocabularies • Labels for different languages • English • Swedish • German • French
ACTION: Forward CLOSURE: Because_Group Backward Patient_GroupACTION: Forward CLOSURE: Because_Group Backward Patient_Group Bidirectional But_Group Terminate SecondaryTo_Group Which_Group CATEGORY: DefiniteExistence ITEMS: Although DefiniteNegativeExistence As a part from Equivocality As a cause for Experiencer (n ~400) Future Historical Indication ProbableExistence ProbableNegatedExistence PseudoExperiencer PseudoFuture PseudoHistorical PseudoNegation ConText Elements
Modifier Ontology Types of modifiers Linguistic expressions Actions Translations
Schema Ontology Imports Modifier Ontology Medications • Type • Dose • Frequency • Route Diagnosis • Negation • Uncertainty • Severity • History • Experiencer
Creating Domain Knowledge Bases for NLP User Domain Knowledge Base Schema Ontology Knowledge Author Domain Ontologies Modifier Ontology
Domain Knowledge Base for NLP Instance of schema ontology Clinical elements from a particular domain
Synonyms Misspellings Regular expressions
Creating Domain Knowledge Bases for NLP User Domain Knowledge Base Schema Ontology Knowledge Author Domain Ontologies Modifier Ontology
Map NLP Output to User KB Controlled Vocabs Dry cough Productive cough Cough Hacking cough Bloody cough User’s Concepts Cough Dyspnea Infiltrate on CXR Wheezing Fever Cervical Lymphadenopathy Which concepts?
Attribute-values Temp 38.0C Low-grade temperature User’s Concepts Cough Dyspnea Infiltrate on CXR Wheezing Fever Cervical Lymphadenopathy What values?
“Family history of colon cancer” Knowledge Author Disease: colon cancer Experiencer: family Negation: no Historical: yes NLP Schema Domain Ontology
Knowledge Author B Scuba, F Fana, Liqin Wang, Mingyuan Zhang, Y Liu, M Kong, F Drews • Front end interface for users • Back end • Schema ontology • Modifier ontology • Output • Domain ontology • Schema for NLP system
African American Adult Questions | Discussion
No family history of colon cancer Linguistic modifiers
Acknowledgments BLU Lab Collaborators • Lee Christensen • Melissa Tharp • Mike Conway • Danielle Mowery • Bill Scuba • Milan Kovacevich • Dieter Hillert • Samir Abdelrahman • Leah Willis • Bob Angell • Harry Hochheiser • Jan Wiebe • Rebecca Hwa • Guergana Savova • Noemie Elhadad • Michael Matheny • Rob El-Kareh • Ruth Reeves • Qing Zeng • Guy Divita • Frank Drews • SumithraVellupilai • Maria Kvist • Maria Skeppstedt • AronHenrikkson • Brian Chapman • David Carrell • Sascha Dublin • Zia Agha • StephaneMeystre • Scott DuVall • Jianlin Shi