@inproceedings{6d138e3a8dc64d9ea5e29802699a1541,
title = "Clinical Abbreviation Disambiguation Using Neural Word Embeddings",
abstract = "This study examined the use of neural word embeddings for clinical abbreviation disambiguation, a special case of word sense disambiguation (WSD). We investigated three different methods for deriving word embeddings from a large unlabeled clinical corpus: one existing method called Surrounding based embedding feature (SBE), and two newly developed methods: Left-Right surrounding based embedding feature (LR_SBE) and MAX surrounding based embedding feature (MAX_SBE). We then added these word embeddings as additional features to a Support Vector Machines (SVM) based WSD system. Evaluation using the clinical abbreviation datasets from both the Vanderbilt University and the University of Minnesota showed that neural word embedding features improved the performance of the SVM-based clinical abbreviation disambiguation system. More specifically, the new MAX_SBE method outperformed the other two methods and achieved the state-of-the-art performance on both clinical abbreviation datasets.",
author = "Yonghui Wu and Jun Xu and Yaoyun Zhang and Hua Xu",
note = "Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2015 Association for Computational Linguistics; ACL-IJCNLP 2015 Workshop on Biomedical Natural Language Processing, BioNLP 2015 ; Conference date: 30-07-2015",
year = "2015",
language = "English (US)",
series = "ACL-IJCNLP 2015 - BioNLP 2015: Workshop on Biomedical Natural Language Processing, Proceedings of the Workshop",
publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)",
pages = "171--176",
booktitle = "ACL-IJCNLP 2015 - BioNLP 2015",
address = "United States",
}