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  • The Global ETD Search service is a free service for researchers to find electronic theses and dissertations. This service is provided by the Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations.
    Our metadata is collected from universities around the world. If you manage a university/consortium/country archive and want to be added, details can be found on the NDLTD website.
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MINING CAUSAL ASSOCIATIONS FROM GERIATRIC LITERATURE

Krishnan, Anand 14 August 2013 (has links)
Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI) / Literature pertaining to geriatric care contains rich information regarding the best practices related to geriatric health care issues. The publication domain of geriatric care is small as compared to other health related areas, however, there are over a million articles pertaining to different cases and case interventions capturing best practice outcomes. If the data found in these articles could be harvested and processed effectively, such knowledge could then be translated from research to practice in a quicker and more efficient manner. Geriatric literature contains multiple domains or practice areas and within these domains is a wealth of information such as interventions, information on care for elderly, case studies, and real life scenarios. These articles are comprised of a variety of causal relationships such as the relationship between interventions and disorders. The goal of this study is to identify these causal relations from published abstracts. Natural language processing and statistical methods were adopted to identify and extract these causal relations. Using the developed methods, causal relations were extracted with precision of 79.54%, recall of 81% while only having a false positive rate 8%.

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