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Named entity recognition in electronic health records using transfer learning bootstrapped Neural Networks

Neural networks (NNs) have become the state of the art in many machine learning applications, such as image, sound (LeCun et al., 2015) and natural language processing (Young et al., 2017; Linggard et al., 2012). However, the success of NNs remains …

Natural language processing for structuring clinical text data on depression using UK-CRIS

Background: Utilisation of routinely collected electronic health records from secondary care offers unprecedented possibilities for medical science research but can also present difficulties. One key issue is that medical information is presented as …