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MedCATTrainer: A biomedical free text annotation interface with active learning and research use case specific customisation

Searle, T; Kraljevic, Z; Bendayan, R; Bean, D; Dobson, R; (2020) MedCATTrainer: A biomedical free text annotation interface with active learning and research use case specific customisation. In: Proceedings of the 2019 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing and the 9th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing (EMNLP-IJCNLP): System Demonstrations. (pp. pp. 139-144). Association for Computational Linguistics: Hong Kong, China. Green open access

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Abstract

We present MedCATTrainer1 an interface for building, improving and customising a given Named Entity Recognition and Linking (NER+L) model for biomedical domain text. NER+L is often used as a first step in deriving value from clinical text. Collecting labelled data for training models is difficult due to the need for specialist domain knowledge. MedCATTrainer offers an interactive web-interface to inspect and improve recognised entities from an underlying NER+L model via active learning. Secondary use of data for clinical research often has task and context specific criteria. MedCATTrainer provides a further interface to define and collect supervised learning training data for researcher specific use cases. Initial results suggest our approach allows for efficient and accurate collection of research use case specific training data.

Type: Proceedings paper
Title: MedCATTrainer: A biomedical free text annotation interface with active learning and research use case specific customisation
Event: 9th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing (EMNLP-IJCNLP): System Demonstrations
ISBN-13: 9781950737925
Open access status: An open access version is available from UCL Discovery
Publisher version: https://www.aclweb.org/anthology/D19-3024
Language: English
Additional information: This article is licensed on a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)
UCL classification: UCL
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Population Health Sciences > Institute of Health Informatics
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Population Health Sciences > Institute of Health Informatics > Clinical Epidemiology
URI: https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10106345
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