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Medical Text Classification using Convolutional Neural Networks

Computation and Language 2017-04-25 v1

Abstract

We present an approach to automatically classify clinical text at a sentence level. We are using deep convolutional neural networks to represent complex features. We train the network on a dataset providing a broad categorization of health information. Through a detailed evaluation, we demonstrate that our method outperforms several approaches widely used in natural language processing tasks by about 15%.

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@article{arxiv.1704.06841,
  title  = {Medical Text Classification using Convolutional Neural Networks},
  author = {Mark Hughes and Irene Li and Spyros Kotoulas and Toyotaro Suzumura},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1704.06841},
  year   = {2017}
}
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