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Table 10 Comparison of AP clustering results for the 2007–2011 and 2012–2016 periods

From: A bibliometric analysis of natural language processing in medical research

Cluster

2007–2011

Cluster

2012–2016

1

Text mining; Abstracting and indexing as topic; Annotation; Database management system; Sentence

1

Text mining; Information extraction; Named entity recognition

2

Female; Male

2

Female; Male; Middle aged; Adult; Aged

3

Recall; Precision; F-measure

3

Recall; Precision; F-measure; Accuracy

4

Artificial intelligence; Information storage and retrieval; Automatic pattern recognition

4

Artificial intelligence; Semantics; Information storage and retrieval; Clinical text; Concept; Language; Sentence; Unified medical language system

5

Computational biology; Factual database; Gene; Protein; Protein-protein interaction

5

Computational biology; Factual database; Software; Free text

6

Classification; Feature; Semantics; Data mining; Natural language processing method; Unified medical language system

6

Classification; Feature; Support vector machine; Classifier

7

Patient; Disease; Medical record; Medical record system; Patient discharge; Sensitivity and specificity

7

Patient; Medical record; Electronic health record; Clinical note

8

Medical informatics; User-computer interface; Software

8

Medical informatics; Annotation; Corpus; Gene; Social medium

9

Clinical text; Accuracy; Clinical decision support system; Clinical note; Electronic health record; Natural language processing system; Support vector machine

9

Automatic pattern recognition; Controlled vocabulary; Data mining; Machine learning

10

Word; Corpus; Language

10

Sensitivity; Confidence interval; Specificity

11

Biomedical literature; Knowledge; Medline; Ontology

11

Reproducibility of result; Radiology report; Sensitivity and specificity

12

Terminology as topic; Concept; Controlled vocabulary

12

Disease; Natural language processing method; Phenotype

  1. First term in each cluster donates exemplar. Terms in bold type donate new emergent terms for 2012–2016 period compared with 2007–2011 period