An Evolutionary Approach to the Annotation of Discharge Summaries

Christina Lohr, Luise Modersohn, Johannes Hellrich, Tobias Kolditz, Udo Hahn
2020 Studies in Health Technology and Informatics  
We here describe the evolution of annotation guidelines for major clinical named entities, namely Diagnosis, Findings and Symptoms, on a corpus of approximately 1,000 German discharge letters. Due to their intrinsic opaqueness and complexity, clinical annotation tasks require continuous guideline tuning, beginning from the initial definition of crucial entities and the subsequent iterative evolution of guidelines based on empirical evidence. We describe rationales for adaptation, with focus on
more » ... everal metrical criteria and task-centered clinical constraints.
doi:10.3233/shti200116 pmid:32570340 fatcat:5pbaysmnszc7fnhn437y5gvzsq