Joint segmentation and named entity recognition using dual decomposition in Chinese discharge summaries.

CONCLUSIONS: The joint model is efficient and effective in both segmentation and recognition compared with the two individual tasks. The model achieved encouraging results, demonstrating the feasibility of the two tasks.
PMID: 23934949 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

Source: Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association - August 9, 2013 Category: Information Technology Authors: Xu Y, Wang Y, Liu T, Liu J, Fan Y, Qian Y, Tsujii J, Chang EI Tags: J Am Med Inform Assoc Source Type: research