The extraction of each PICO element relies to a different extent on an annotated corpus of MEDLINE abstracts , created through an effort led by the first author at the National Library of Medicine ( Demner-Fushman et al. 2006 ) .
automatically identifying health outcome information in medline records
Dina Demner-Fushman Barbara Few Susan E Hauser George Thoma
For these reasons , explicit section markers are not entirely reliable indicators for the various semantic elements we seek to extract , but must be considered along with other sources of evidence . The extraction of each PICO element relies to a different extent on an annotated corpus of MEDLINE abstracts , created through an effort led by the first author at the National Library of Medicine ( Demner-Fushman et al. 2006 ) . As will be described herein , the population , problem , and the intervention extractors are based largely on recognition of semantic types and a few manually constructed rules ; the outcome extrac -
The extraction of each PICO element relies to a different extent on an annotated corpus of MEDLINE abstracts , created through an effort led by the first author at the National Library of Medicine ( @@CITATION ) .