Using Enriched Samples for Semi-Automated Vocabulary Expansion to Identify Rare Events in Clinical Text: Sexual Orientation as a Use Case
Kristine E. Lynch, Patrick R. Alba, Benjamin Viernes, Scott L. DuVall · Studies in health technology and informatics · 2019
We demonstrate the utility of concept lexicon expansion and evaluation using enriched samples of patients and documents with sexual orientation as a use case for rare event detection in electronic medical records. Using this approach, we found 7 additional words and 21 misspellings beyond our initial set of five seed words. We can use the expanded vocabulary to further develop a full natural language processing system to identify instances where sexual orientation is documented.