Proper filter usage to retrieve multiwords from the MEDLINE n-gram set: Reply to the Turki et al commentary "Enhancing filter-based parenthetic abbreviation extraction methods"
Lu, Chris J.; Payne, Amanda; and Mork, James G
Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association, Volume 28, Issue 3, March 2021, Page 670, https://doi.org/10.1093/jamia/ocaa313 Published 22 December 2020
Enhanced Features in the SPECIALIST Lexicon - Antonyms
Lu, Chris J.; Payne, Amanda; and Mork, James G
AMIA 2020 Virtual Annual Symposium, November 14-18, 2020, Accepted for publishing.
The Unified Medical Language System SPECIALIST Lexicon and Lexical Tools: Development and applications
Lu, Chris J.; Payne, Amanda; and Mork, James G
Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association, 29 May 2020,
Classification Types: A new Feature in the SPECIALIST Lexicon
Lu, Chris J.; Payne, Amanda; and Demner-Fushman, Dina
AMIA 2019 Annual Symposium, Washington, DC, November 16-20, 2019, p. 1661
Spell checker for consumer language (CSpell)
Lu, Chris J.; Aronson Alan R.; Shooshan Sonya E.; and Dina Demner-Fushman
Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association, Volume 26, Issue 3, 1 March 2019, Pages 211-218, https://doi.org/10.1093/jamia/ocy171 21 January 2019 (Editor's Choice)
Improving Spelling Correction with Consumer Health Terminology
Lu, Chris J. and Demner-Fushman, Dina
AMIA 2018 Annual Symposium, San Francisco, CA, November 3-7, 2018, p. 2053
The SPECIALIST Lexicon (2018 Revision)
Allen C. Browne, Alexa T. McCray, Suresh Srinivasan
2018 Editors: Amanda Payne, Destinee Tormey
NLM, Bethesda, MD, June, 2018
Enhancing LexSynonym Features in the Lexical Tools
Lu, Chris J.; Tormey, Destinee; McCreedy, Lynn; and Browne, Allen C.
AMIA 2017 Annual Symposium, Washington, DC, November 04-08, 2017, p. 2090
Enhanced LexSynonym Acquisition for Effective UMLS Concept Mapping
Lu, Chris J.; Tormey, Destinee; McCreedy, Lynn; and Browne, Allen C.
MedInfo 2017: Precision Healthcare through Informatics, The 16th World Congress on Medical and Health Informatics, Hangzhou, China, August 21-25, 2017, Studies in Health technology and informatics 245:501:505
Available at Semantic Scholar
Generating A Distilled N-Gram Set: Effective Lexical Multiword Building in the SPECIALIST Lexicon
Lu, Chris J.; Tormey, Destinee; McCreedy, Lynn; and Browne, Allen C.
The 10th International Joint Conference on Biomedical Engineering Systems and Technologies (BIOSTEC 2017), Vol(5): HEALTHINF, PORTO, Portugal, February 21-23, 2017, p. 77-87 (best paper award candidate)
Available at Semantic Scholar
Multiword Frequency Analysis Based on the MEDLINE N-Gram Set
Lu, Chris J.; Tormey, Destinee; McCreedy, Lynn; and Browne, Allen C.
AMIA 2016 Annual Symposium, Chicago, IL, November 12-16, 2016, p. 1488
Available at Semantic Scholar
Generating SD-Rules in the SPECISLIST Lexical Tools - Optimization for Suffix Derivation Rule Set
Lu, Chris J.; Tormey, Destinee; McCreedy, Lynn; and Browne, Allen C.
The 9th International Joint Conference on Biomedical Engineering Systems and Technologies (BIOSTEC 2016), Vol(5): HEALTHINF, Rome, Italy, February 21-23, 2016, p. 353-358 (9th International Conference on Health Informatics, HEALTHINF/BIOSTEC, 2016 Best Poster Award)
Available at Semantic Scholar
Generating the MEDLINE N-Gram Set
Lu, Chris J.; Tormey, Destinee; McCreedy, Lynn; and Browne, Allen C.
AMIA 2015 Annual Symposium, San Francisco, CA, November 14-18, 2015, p. 1569
Using Element Words to Generate (Multi)Words for the SPECIALIST Lexicon
Lu, Chris J.; Tormey, Destinee; McCreedy, Lynn; and Browne, Allen C.
AMIA 2014 Annual Symposium, Washington, DC, November 15-19, 2014, p. 1499
Implementing Comprehensive Derivational Features in Lexical Tools Using a Systematical Approach
Lu, Chris J.; Tormey, Destinee; McCreedy, Lynn; and Browne, Allen C.
AMIA 2013 Annual Symposium, Washington, DC, November 16-20, 2013, p. 904
Development of Sub-Term Mapping Tools (STMT)
Lu, Chris J. and Browne, Allen C.
AMIA 2012 Annual Symposium, Chicago, IL, November 3-7, 2012, p. 1845 AMIA, 2012 Distinguished Poster Award)
A Systematic Approach for Automatically Generating Derivational Variants in Lexical Tools Based on theSPECIALIST Lexicon
Lu, Chris J.; McCreedy, Lynn; Tormey, Destinee; and Browne, Allen C.
IEEE IT Professional Magazine, May/June, 2012, p. 36-42
Available at Semantic Scholar
Converting Unicode Lexicon and Lexical Tools for ASII NLP Applications
Lu, Chris J. and Browne, Allen C.
AMIA 2011 Annual Symposium, Washington, DC, October 22-26, 2011, p. 1870
Development of Visual Tagging Tool
Lu, Chris J.; Divita, Guy; Browne, Allen C.
AMIA 2010 Annual Symposium, Washington, DC, November 13-17, 2010, p. 1156
Development of a semantic type based WSD tool
Lu, Chris J.; Humphrey, Susanne M.; Rogers, Willie J.; Browne, Allen C.
AMIA 2009 Annual Symposium, San Francisco, CA, November 14-18, 2009, p. 943
A method for verifying a vector-based text classification system
Lu, Chris J.; Humphrey, Susanne M.; Browne, Allen C.
AMIA 2008 Annual Symposium, Washington, DC, November 8-12, 2008, p. 1030
Using lexical tools to convert Unicode characters to ASCII
Lu, Chris J.; Browne, Allen C., Divita, Guy
AMIA 2008 Annual Symposium, Washington, DC, November 8-12, 2008, p. 1031
A normalized lexical lookup approach to identifying UMLS
Bashyam, Vijayaraghavan; Divita, Guy; Bennett, David B.; Browne, Allen C.; Taira, Ricky K.
The 12th World Congress on Health (Medical) Informatics (MedInfo 2007), Brisbane, Australia, August 20-24, 2007, p. 545-549
Automatic categorization of Google search results for medical queries using JDI
Bangalore, Anantha K.; Divita, Guy; Humphrey, Susanne; Browne, Allen; Thorn, Karen E.
The 12th World Congress on Health (Medical) Informatics (MedInfo 2007), Brisbane, Australia, August 20-24, 2007, p. 2253-2254
Journal Descriptor Indexing tool for categorizing text according to discipline or semantic type
Humphrey, Susanne M.; Lu, Chris J.; Rogers, Willie J.; Browne, Allen C.
AMIA 2006 Annual Symposium, Washington, DC, November 11-15, 2006, p. 960
Enhanced Normalization of Parenthetic Plural Forms: (s), (es), (ies)
Lu, Chris J.; Divita, Guy; Browne, Allen C.
NLM, Bethesda, MD, November, 2005
Lexical Systems; A report to the Board of Scientific Counselors
Allen C. Browne, Guy Divita, Chris Lu, Lynn McCreedy, Destinee Nace
09/2003, NLM, Bethesda, MD
NLM, Bethesda, MD, September, 2003
The SPECIALIST Lexicon
Allen C. Browne, Alexa T. McCray, Suresh Srinivasan
NLM, Bethesda, MD, June, 2000