Interweaving domain knowledge and unsupervised learning for psychiatric stressor extraction from clinical notes

Olivia R. Zhang, Yaoyun Zhang, Jun Xu, Kirk Roberts, Xiang Y. Zhang, Hua Xu

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Abstract

Mental health is an increasingly important problem in healthcare. Psychiatric stressors are one of the major contributors of mental disorders. Very few studies have investigated stressor data in electronic health records, mostly because they are recorded in narrative texts. This study takes the initiative to develop a natural language processing system to automatically extract psychiatric stressors from clinical notes. Our approach integrates domain knowledge from multiple sources and unsupervised word representation features generated from deep learning based algorithms, to address the context dependence and data sparseness challenges caused by idiosyncratic psychosocial backgrounds. Experimental results on psychiatric notes from the CEGS N-GRID 2016 challenge demonstrate that the proposed approach is promising. The best performing configuration achieved a precision of 90.5%, a recall of 65.5%, and a F-measure of 76.0% for inexact matching.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Title of host publicationAdvances in Artificial Intelligence
Subtitle of host publicationFrom Theory to Practice - 30th International Conference on Industrial Engineering and Other Applications of Applied Intelligent Systems, IEA/AIE 2017, Proceedings
EditorsMoonis Ali, Salem Benferhat, Karim Tabia
PublisherSpringer Verlag
Pages396-406
Number of pages11
ISBN (Print)9783319600444
DOIs
StatePublished - 2017
Event30th International Conference on Industrial, Engineering, and Other Applications of Applied Intelligent Systems, IEA/AIE 2017 - Arras, France
Duration: Jun 27 2017Jun 30 2017

Publication series

NameLecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
Volume10351 LNCS
ISSN (Print)0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)1611-3349

Conference

Conference30th International Conference on Industrial, Engineering, and Other Applications of Applied Intelligent Systems, IEA/AIE 2017
Country/TerritoryFrance
CityArras
Period6/27/176/30/17

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Theoretical Computer Science
  • General Computer Science

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