Joint segmentation and named entity recognition using dual decomposition in Chinese discharge summaries

Yan Xu, Yining Wang, Tianren Liu, Jiahua Liu, Yubo Fan, Yi Qian, Jun’ichi Tsujii, Eric Chang

Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association · 2013 · 74 citations · 30 references

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Abstract

The joint model is efficient and effective in both segmentation and recognition compared with the two individual tasks. The model achieved encouraging results, demonstrating the feasibility of the two tasks.

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