Statistical inference for natural language processing algorithms with a demonstration using type 2 diabetes prediction from electronic health record notes.

Autor: Egleston BL; Biostatistics and Bioinformatics Facility, Fox Chase Cancer Center, Temple University Health System, Philadelphia, PA., Bai T; Department of Computer and Information Sciences, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA., Bleicher RJ; Department of Surgical Oncology, Fox Chase Cancer Center, Philadelphia, PA., Taylor SJ; Population Studies Facility, Fox Chase Cancer Center, Philadelphia, PA., Lutz MH; Population Studies Facility, Fox Chase Cancer Center, Philadelphia, PA., Vucetic S; Department of Computer and Information Sciences, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA.
Jazyk: angličtina
Zdroj: Biometrics [Biometrics] 2021 Sep; Vol. 77 (3), pp. 1089-1100. Date of Electronic Publication: 2020 Aug 03.
DOI: 10.1111/biom.13338
Abstrakt: The pointwise mutual information statistic (PMI), which measures how often two words occur together in a document corpus, is a cornerstone of recently proposed popular natural language processing algorithms such as word2vec. PMI and word2vec reveal semantic relationships between words and can be helpful in a range of applications such as document indexing, topic analysis, or document categorization. We use probability theory to demonstrate the relationship between PMI and word2vec. We use the theoretical results to demonstrate how the PMI can be modeled and estimated in a simple and straight forward manner. We further describe how one can obtain standard error estimates that account for within-patient clustering that arises from patterns of repeated words within a patient's health record due to a unique health history. We then demonstrate the usefulness of PMI on the problem of predictive identification of disease from free text notes of electronic health records. Specifically, we use our methods to distinguish those with and without type 2 diabetes mellitus in electronic health record free text data using over 400 000 clinical notes from an academic medical center.
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Databáze: MEDLINE
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