Review of the annotation procedures for NLP (in context of RA-CVD and multiple sclerosis).

Present: Murphy, Savova, Szolovits, Liao, Cai, Xia, Gainer, Raoul, Kohane, Churchill

In a discussion led by Guergana Savova, we reviewed the Knowtator package that is built on top of PROTÉGÉ. The focus of the discussion was on the "squishy" and detailed assessments of patient functioning (e.g. "bending", "grasping", "doing housework" etc). We also discussed comparing the "bag of words" classification approach vs. the fine-grained sentence-level or concept-level annotation.