À la Recherche du Temps Perdu: extracting temporal relations from medical text in the 2012 i2b2 NLP challenge.

Colin Cherry, Xiaodan Zhu, Joel D. Martin, Berry de Bruijn

Abstract: Objective An analysis of the timing of events is critical for a deeper understanding of the course of events within a patient record. The 2012 i2b2 NLP challenge focused on the extraction of temporal relationships between concepts within textual hospital discharge summaries.