@inproceedings{dligach-miller-2018-learning,
title = "Learning Patient Representations from Text",
author = "Dligach, Dmitriy and
Miller, Timothy",
editor = "Nissim, Malvina and
Berant, Jonathan and
Lenci, Alessandro",
booktitle = "Proceedings of the Seventh Joint Conference on Lexical and Computational Semantics",
month = jun,
year = "2018",
address = "New Orleans, Louisiana",
publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
url = "https://aclanthology.org/S18-2014",
doi = "10.18653/v1/S18-2014",
pages = "119--123",
abstract = "Mining electronic health records for patients who satisfy a set of predefined criteria is known in medical informatics as phenotyping. Phenotyping has numerous applications such as outcome prediction, clinical trial recruitment, and retrospective studies. Supervised machine learning for phenotyping typically relies on sparse patient representations such as bag-of-words. We consider an alternative that involves learning patient representations. We develop a neural network model for learning patient representations and show that the learned representations are general enough to obtain state-of-the-art performance on a standard comorbidity detection task.",
}
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Markdown (Informal)
[Learning Patient Representations from Text](https://aclanthology.org/S18-2014) (Dligach & Miller, *SEM 2018)
ACL
- Dmitriy Dligach and Timothy Miller. 2018. Learning Patient Representations from Text. In Proceedings of the Seventh Joint Conference on Lexical and Computational Semantics, pages 119–123, New Orleans, Louisiana. Association for Computational Linguistics.