A long journey to short abbreviations: developing an open-source framework for clinical abbreviation recognition and disambiguation (CARD).

Wu Y, Denny JC, Trent Rosenbloom S, Miller RA, Giuse DA, Wang L, Blanquicett C, Soysal E, Xu J, Xu H. A long journey to short abbreviations: developing an open-source framework for clinical abbreviation recognition and disambiguation (CARD). Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association : JAMIA. 2017 Apr 1;24(24). e79-e86. PMID: 27539197 [PubMed]

Abstract

The goal of this study was to develop a practical framework for recognizing and disambiguating clinical abbreviations, thereby improving current clinical natural language processing (NLP) systems' capability to handle abbreviations in clinical narratives.