Ontology-driven extraction of linguistic patterns for modelling clinical guidelines

Radu Serban*, Annette Ten Teije, Frank Van Harmelen, Mar Marcos, Cristina Polo-Conde

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Abstract

Evidence-based clinical guidelines require frequent updates duo to research and technology advances. The quality of guideline updates can be improved if the knowledge underlying the guideline text is explicitly modelled using the so-called guideline patterns (GPs), mappings between a text fragment arid a formal representation of its corresponding medical knowledge. Ontology-driven extraction of linguistic patterns is a method to automatically reconstruct the control knowledge captured in guidelines, which facilitates a more effective modelling and authoring of clinical guidelines. We illustrate by examples the use of a method for generating and searching for linguistic guideline patterns in the text of a guideline for treatment of breast cancer, and provide a general evaluation of usefulness of these patterns in the modelling of the guideline analyzed.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationLecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
Pages191-200
Number of pages10
Volume3581 LNAI
Publication statusPublished - 2005
Event10th Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Medicine, AIME 2005 - Aberdeen, United Kingdom
Duration: 23 Jul 200527 Jul 2005

Publication series

NameLecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
Volume3581 LNAI
ISSN (Print)03029743
ISSN (Electronic)16113349

Conference

Conference10th Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Medicine, AIME 2005
Country/TerritoryUnited Kingdom
CityAberdeen
Period23/07/0527/07/05

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