Extracting relations between diseases, treatments, and tests from clinical data

Abstract

This paper describes research methodologies and experimental settings for the task of relation identification and classification between pairs of medical entities, using clinical data. The models that we use represent a combination of lexical and syntactic features, medical semantic information, terms extracted from a vector-space model created using a random projection algorithm, and additional contextual information extracted at sentence-level. The best results are obtained using an SVM classification algorithm with a combination of the above mentioned features, plus a set of additional features that capture the distributional semantic correlation between the concepts and each relation of interest. © 2011 Springer-Verlag.