A Corpus of Clinical Practice Guidelines Annotated with the Importance of Recommendations

Jonathon Read, Erik Velldal, Marc Cavazza, Gersende Georg


Abstract
In this paper we present the Corpus of REcommendation STrength (CREST), a collection of HTML-formatted clinical guidelines annotated with the location of recommendations. Recommendations are labelled with an author-provided indicator of their strength of importance. As data was drawn from many disparate authors, we define a unified scheme of importance labels, and provide a mapping for each guideline. We demonstrate the utility of the corpus and its annotations in some initial measurements investigating the type of language constructions associated with strong and weak recommendations, and experiments into promising features for recommendation classification, both with respect to strong and weak labels, and to all labels of the unified scheme. An error analysis indicates that, while there is a strong relationship between lexical choices and strength labels, there can be substantial variance in the choices made by different authors.
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L16-1272
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Proceedings of the Tenth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC'16)
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May
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2016
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Portorož, Slovenia
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Nicoletta Calzolari, Khalid Choukri, Thierry Declerck, Sara Goggi, Marko Grobelnik, Bente Maegaard, Joseph Mariani, Helene Mazo, Asuncion Moreno, Jan Odijk, Stelios Piperidis
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European Language Resources Association (ELRA)
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1724–1731
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Jonathon Read, Erik Velldal, Marc Cavazza, and Gersende Georg. 2016. A Corpus of Clinical Practice Guidelines Annotated with the Importance of Recommendations. In Proceedings of the Tenth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC'16), pages 1724–1731, Portorož, Slovenia. European Language Resources Association (ELRA).
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