Robert Leaman


2020

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A Comprehensive Dictionary and Term Variation Analysis for COVID-19 and SARS-CoV-2
Robert Leaman | Zhiyong Lu
Proceedings of the 1st Workshop on NLP for COVID-19 (Part 2) at EMNLP 2020

The number of unique terms in the scientific literature used to refer to either SARS-CoV-2 or COVID-19 is remarkably large and has continued to increase rapidly despite well-established standardized terms. This high degree of term variation makes high recall identification of these important entities difficult. In this manuscript we present an extensive dictionary of terms used in the literature to refer to SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19. We use a rule-based approach to iteratively generate new term variants, then locate these variants in a large text corpus. We compare our dictionary to an extensive collection of terminological resources, demonstrating that our resource provides a substantial number of additional terms. We use our dictionary to analyze the usage of SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19 terms over time and show that the number of unique terms continues to grow rapidly. Our dictionary is freely available at https://github.com/ncbi-nlp/CovidTermVar.

2014

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Automated Disease Normalization with Low Rank Approximations
Robert Leaman | Zhiyong Lu
Proceedings of BioNLP 2014

2010

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Towards Internet-Age Pharmacovigilance: Extracting Adverse Drug Reactions from User Posts in Health-Related Social Networks
Robert Leaman | Laura Wojtulewicz | Ryan Sullivan | Annie Skariah | Jian Yang | Graciela Gonzalez
Proceedings of the 2010 Workshop on Biomedical Natural Language Processing