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Natural Language Processing for Rapid Response to Emergent Diseases: Case Study of Calcium Channel Blockers and Hypertension in the COVID-19 Pandemic

Antoine Neuraz
Ivan Lerner
William Digan
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Nicolas Paris
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Rosy Tsopra
Alice Rogier
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David Baudoin
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Kevin Bretonnel Cohen
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Anita Burgun
Bastien Rance

Abstract

A novel disease poses special challenges for informatics solutions. Biomedical informatics relies for the most part on structured data, which require a preexisting data or knowledge model; however, novel diseases do not have preexisting knowledge models. In an emergent epidemic, language processing can enable rapid conversion of unstructured text to a novel knowledge model. However, although this idea has often been suggested, no opportunity has arisen to actually test it in real time. The current coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic presents such an opportunity.

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hal-03119925 , version 1 (25-01-2021)

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Antoine Neuraz, Ivan Lerner, William Digan, Nicolas Paris, Rosy Tsopra, et al.. Natural Language Processing for Rapid Response to Emergent Diseases: Case Study of Calcium Channel Blockers and Hypertension in the COVID-19 Pandemic. Journal of Medical Internet Research, 2020, 22 (8), pp.e20773. ⟨10.2196/20773⟩. ⟨hal-03119925⟩
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