Similarity-Based Unsupervised Spelling Correction Using BioWordVec: Development and Usability Study of Bacterial Culture and Antimicrobial Susceptibility Reports (Preprint)
Abstract:BACKGROUND
Existing bacterial culture test results for infectious diseases are written in unrefined text, resulting in many problems including typographical errors and stop words. Effective spelling correction processes are needed to ensure the accuracy and reliability of data for the study of infectious diseases, including medical terminology extraction. If a dictionary is established, spelling algorithms using edit distance are efficient. However, in the absence of dictionaries, tradi… Show more
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