ConText¶
Overview¶
ConText is based on the algorithm developed by Chapman, et al. [1] [2] to determine negation, experiencer and temporality modifiers around clinical concepts. The algorithm uses rules, and text windows (or spans) along with an input concept to determine the 3 ConText types. Resulting values from ConText can be any of the following, where the bolded item notes the default.
Temporality¶
- Recent
- Historical
- Hypothetical
Experiencer¶
- Patient
- Other
Negation¶
- Affirmed
- Negated
- Possible
Source Code¶
The source code is found in nlp/algorithms/context/context.py
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Concepts¶
ConText has a pre-defined set of concepts for each ConText type. They can be found at nlp/algorithms/context/data
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Each ConText keyword has a category which either indicates it as a candidate for a ConText type, a pseudo-candidate (which would be excluded), or a term that indicates a change in the sentence phrase, such as a conjunction (which would close a ConText window).
Algorithm¶
We have a Python implementation of the ConText algorithm.
References¶
[1] | Harkema H, Dowling JN, Thornblade T, Chapman WW
Context: An Algorithm for Determining Negation, Experiencer, and Temporal Status
from Clinical Reports
Journal of biomedical informatics. 2009;42(5):839-851.
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[2] | Chapman WW, Chu D, Dowling JN
ConText: An algorithm for identifying contextual features from clinical text.
BioNLP Workshop of the Association for Computational Linguistics. June 29, 2007.
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