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Allen C. Browne
Researcher at National Institutes of Health
Publications - 54
Citations - 1742
Allen C. Browne is an academic researcher from National Institutes of Health. The author has contributed to research in topics: Unified Medical Language System & Vocabulary. The author has an hindex of 21, co-authored 54 publications receiving 1672 citations. Previous affiliations of Allen C. Browne include Harvard University.
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Lexical methods for managing variation in biomedical terminologies.
TL;DR: The UMLS Metathesaurus as mentioned in this paper provides a lexicon, lexical programs, databases, and indexes to help users manage the high degree of variability inherent in natural language terms and in the terminologies themselves.
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Consumer Health Information Seeking as Hypothesis Testing
TL;DR: The present study attempts to understand users' information seeking difficulties by drawing on a hypothesis testing explanatory framework and also addresses the role of user competencies and their interaction with internet resources.
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Exploiting a large thesaurus for information retrieval
TL;DR: This paper presents a meta-analyses of several methods used which simulate (or approximate) representation of the content of both queries and documents in the context of a semantic conceptual structure of a text.
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Towards consumer-friendly PHRs: patients' experience with reviewing their health records.
Alla Keselman,Laura Slaughter,Catherine Arnott-Smith,Hyeoneui Kim,Guy Divita,Allen C. Browne,Christopher Tsai,Qing Zeng-Treitler +7 more
TL;DR: A survey of patients' experience with reviewing their health records, in order to identify barriers to optimal record use points to providers' notes, laboratory test results and radiology reports as the most difficult records sections for lay reviewers.
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UMLS knowledge for biomedical language processing.
TL;DR: The focus of the effort is the development of SPECIALIST, an experimental natural language processing system for the biomedical domain that includes a broad coverage parser supported by a large lexicon, modules that provide access to the extensive Unified Medical Language System Knowledge Sources, and a retrieval module that permits experiments in information retrieval.