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Characteristics of Patient Records and Clinical Corpora

  • Hercules Dalianis
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This chapter specifically details the linguistic characteristics of patient record text in the form of spelling errors, domain specific abbreviations, negation and assertion expressions, etc. for English, Swedish and other languages.

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  • Hercules Dalianis
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  1. 1.DSV-Stockholm UniversityKistaSweden

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