Abstract: The paper is a limited review of publications (1995-2010) related to the problem of classification of clinical records presented in a free text form. The techniques of indexing and methods of classification are considered. We also pay special attention to the description of document sets used in the mentioned research. Finally, we conclude about the perspective research directions related with the topic.

Keywords: Natural language processing, medical corpus, medical diagnostics, automatic medical classification

ACM Classification Keywords: I.2.7 Natural Language Processing

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CLASSIFICATION OF FREE TEXT CLINICAL NARRATIVES (SHORT REVIEW)

Olga Kaurova, Mikhail Alexandrov, Xavier Blanco

http://foibg.com/ibs_isc/ibs-23/ibs-23-p12.pdf