A method for harmonization of clinical abbreviation and acronym sense inventories.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Previous research has developed methods to construct acronym sense inventories from a single institutional corpus. Although beneficial, a sense inventory constructed from a single institutional corpus is not generalizable, because acronyms from different geographic regions and medical specialties vary greatly.

Objective

Develop an automated method to harmonize sense inventories from different regions and specialties towards the development of a comprehensive inventory.

Methods

The method involves integrating multiple source sense inventories into one centralized inventory and cross-mapping redundant entries to establish synonymy. To evaluate our method, we integrated 8 well-known source inventories into one comprehensive inventory (or metathesaurus). For bo

SUBMITTER: Grossman LV 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6474250 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature