Constituency Parser for Clinical Narratives using NLP

Abstract

Clinical parsing is useful in medical domain .Clinical narratives are difficult to understand as it is in unstructured format .Medical Natural language processing systems are used to make these clinical narratives in readable format. Clinical Parser is the combination of natural language processing and medical lexicon .For making clinical narrative understandable parsing technique is used .In this paper we are discussing about constituency parser for clinical narratives, which is based on phrase structured grammar. This parser convert unstructured clinical narratives into structured report. This paper focus on clinical sentences which is in unstructured format after parsing convert into structured format. For each sentence recall ,precision and bracketing f- measure are calculated .