A Bayesian network coding scheme for annotating biomedical information presented to genetic counseling clients

We developed a Bayesian network coding scheme for annotating biomedical content in layperson-oriented clinical genetics documents. The coding scheme supports the representation of probabilistic and causal relationships among concepts in this domain, at a high enough level of abstraction to capture c...

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Published in:Journal of biomedical informatics Vol. 38; no. 2; pp. 130 - 144
Main Author: Green, Nancy
Format: Journal Article
Language:English
Published: United States Elsevier Inc 01.04.2005
Subjects:
Artificial Intelligence
Bayes Theorem
Bayesian network
Clinical genetics
Content analysis
Content annotation
Correspondence as Topic
Discourse annotation
Documentation - methods
Genetic counseling
Genetic Counseling - methods
Information Dissemination - methods
Information Storage and Retrieval - methods
Informed Consent
Intercoder agreement
Natural language generation
Natural Language Processing
Patient communication
Patient Education as Topic - methods
Physician-Patient Relations
Word Processing
Patient communication
Genetic counseling
Clinical genetics
Natural language generation
Content annotation
Natural language processing
Intercoder agreement
Bayesian network
Discourse annotation
Content analysis
ISSN:1532-0464, 1532-0480
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Summary:We developed a Bayesian network coding scheme for annotating biomedical content in layperson-oriented clinical genetics documents. The coding scheme supports the representation of probabilistic and causal relationships among concepts in this domain, at a high enough level of abstraction to capture commonalities among genetic processes and their relationship to health. We are using the coding scheme to annotate a corpus of genetic counseling patient letters as part of the requirements analysis and knowledge acquisition phase of a natural language generation project. This paper describes the coding scheme and presents an evaluation of intercoder reliability for its tag set. In addition to giving examples of use of the coding scheme for analysis of discourse and linguistic features in this genre, we suggest other uses for it in analysis of layperson-oriented text and dialogue in medical communication.
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ISSN:1532-0464
1532-0480
DOI:10.1016/j.jbi.2004.10.001