Overview of the NTCIR-10 MedNLP Task
Mizuki Morita, Yoshinobu Kano, Tomoko Ohkuma, Mai Miyabe, Eiji Aramaki · 2013
Recently, medical records are increasingly written on electronic media instead of on paper, thereby increasing the importance of information processing in medical fields. We have organized an NTCIR-10 pilot task for medical records. Our pilot task, MedNLP, comprises three tasks: (1) de-identification, (2) complaint and diagnosis, and (3) free. These tasks represent elemental technologies used to develop computational systems supporting widely diverse medical services. Development has yielded 22 systems for task (1), 15 systems for task (2), and 1 system for task (3). This report presents results of these systems, with discussion clarifying the issues to be resolved in medical NLP fields. Keywords medical records, electronic health records (EHR), de-identification, named entity recognition (NER), shared task and evaluation 1.