Volume 11 : Number 2 : Paper 3
December 2008 Special Issue of Best Papers presented at CLEI 2007, San Jose, Costa Rica
Title:
Construction of an Attribute-Value Representation for Semi-structured Medical Findings Knowledge Extraction

Authors and Affiliations:
Maria Carolina Monard, Universidade de Sao Paulo Instituto de Ciencias Matematicas e de Computacao Sao Carlos - Sao Paulo - Brazil P.O. Box 668 ZIP Code 13560-970 Fone: ++55 (16) 273-9669 Fax: ++55 (16) 273-9751
Everton Alvares Cherman,
Daniel de Faveri Honorato,
Huei Diana Lee,
Feng Chung Wu, Western Parana State University

Abstract:
Data Mining is a process related to analysis, understanding and knowledge extraction from databases. In order to perform this process it is usually necessary to represent the data in the so called attribute-value format. This work proposes an extension of a methodology which supports, through a semi-automatic process, the construction of a table in the attribute-value format from information contained in medical findings which are described in natural language (Portuguese). A case study in which the methodology has been applied to a collection of Upper Digestive Endoscopies


Received April, 2007, Revised dec, 2008 , Editor: Manuel Bermudez, Marcelo Jenkins
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