Identification of Occupation Mentions in Clinical Narratives

A patient’s occupation is an important variable used for disease surveillance and modeling, but such information is often only available in free-text clinical narratives. We have developed a large occupation dictionary that is used as part of both knowled

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Natural Language Processing and Information Systems 21st International Conference on Applications of Natural Language to Information Systems, NLDB 2016 Salford, UK, June 22–24, 2016 Proceedings

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Editors Elisabeth Métais Conservatoire National des Arts et Métiers Paris France

Vijayan Sugumaran Oakland University Rochester, MI USA

Farid Meziane University of Salford Salford UK

Sunil Vadera University of Salford Salford UK

Mohamad Saraee University of Salford Salford UK

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