Deep learning for named entity recognition on Chinese electronic medical records: Combining deep transfer learning with multitask bi-directional LSTM RNN

Xishuang Dong; Shanta Chowdhury; Lijun Qian; Xiangfang Li; Yi Guan; Jinfeng Yang; Qiubin Yu

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0216046

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Deep learning for named entity recognition on Chinese electronic medical records: Combining deep transfer learning with multitask bi-directional LSTM RNN

Xishuang Dong ,

Roles Methodology, Project administration, Writing – original draft

* E-mail: xidong@pvamu.edu

Affiliation Center of Excellence in Research and Education for Big Military Data Intelligence (CREDIT), Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Prairie View A&M University, Texas A&M University System, Prairie View, Texas 77446, United States of America

http://orcid.org/0000-0002-3742-0071

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Shanta Chowdhury,

Roles Software, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Center of Excellence in Research and Education for Big Military Data Intelligence (CREDIT), Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Prairie View A&M University, Texas A&M University System, Prairie View, Texas 77446, United States of America
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Lijun Qian,

Roles Funding acquisition, Project administration, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Center of Excellence in Research and Education for Big Military Data Intelligence (CREDIT), Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Prairie View A&M University, Texas A&M University System, Prairie View, Texas 77446, United States of America
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Xiangfang Li,

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Center of Excellence in Research and Education for Big Military Data Intelligence (CREDIT), Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Prairie View A&M University, Texas A&M University System, Prairie View, Texas 77446, United States of America
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Yi Guan,

Roles Resources

Affiliation Schools of Computer Science and Technology, Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin, China
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Jinfeng Yang,

Roles Resources

Affiliation Schools of Software, Harbin University of Science and Technology, Harbin, China
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Qiubin Yu

Roles Resources

Affiliation Second Affiliated Hospital of Harbin Medical University, Harbin, China
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Deep learning for named entity recognition on Chinese electronic medical records: Combining deep transfer learning with multitask bi-directional LSTM RNN

Xishuang Dong,
Shanta Chowdhury,
Lijun Qian,
Xiangfang Li,
Yi Guan,
Jinfeng Yang,
Qiubin Yu

Published: May 2, 2019
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0216046

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