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title = "Annotating Temporal Information in Clinical Notes for Timeline Reconstruction: Towards the Definition of Calendar Expressions",
author = "Viani, Natalia and
Tissot, Hegler and
Bernardino, Ariane and
Velupillai, Sumithra",
editor = "Demner-Fushman, Dina and
Cohen, Kevin Bretonnel and
Ananiadou, Sophia and
Tsujii, Junichi",
booktitle = "Proceedings of the 18th BioNLP Workshop and Shared Task",
month = aug,
year = "2019",
address = "Florence, Italy",
publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
url = "https://aclanthology.org/W19-5021",
doi = "10.18653/v1/W19-5021",
pages = "201--210",
abstract = "To automatically analyse complex trajectory information enclosed in clinical text (e.g. timing of symptoms, duration of treatment), it is important to understand the related temporal aspects, anchoring each event on an absolute point in time. In the clinical domain, few temporally annotated corpora are currently available. Moreover, underlying annotation schemas - which mainly rely on the TimeML standard - are not necessarily easily applicable for applications such as patient timeline reconstruction. In this work, we investigated how temporal information is documented in clinical text by annotating a corpus of medical reports with time expressions (TIMEXes), based on TimeML. The developed corpus is available to the NLP community. Starting from our annotations, we analysed the suitability of the TimeML TIMEX schema for capturing timeline information, identifying challenges and possible solutions. As a result, we propose a novel annotation schema that could be useful for timeline reconstruction: CALendar EXpression (CALEX).",
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%T Annotating Temporal Information in Clinical Notes for Timeline Reconstruction: Towards the Definition of Calendar Expressions
%A Viani, Natalia
%A Tissot, Hegler
%A Bernardino, Ariane
%A Velupillai, Sumithra
%Y Demner-Fushman, Dina
%Y Cohen, Kevin Bretonnel
%Y Ananiadou, Sophia
%Y Tsujii, Junichi
%S Proceedings of the 18th BioNLP Workshop and Shared Task
%D 2019
%8 August
%I Association for Computational Linguistics
%C Florence, Italy
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%U https://aclanthology.org/W19-5021
%U https://doi.org/10.18653/v1/W19-5021
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Markdown (Informal)
[Annotating Temporal Information in Clinical Notes for Timeline Reconstruction: Towards the Definition of Calendar Expressions](https://aclanthology.org/W19-5021) (Viani et al., BioNLP 2019)
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