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  9. Hripcsak G, Austin JH, Alderson PO, Friedman C. Use of natural language processing to translate clinical information from a database of 889,921 chest radiographic reports. Radiology 2002 Jul;224(1):157-63.
  10. Chuang JH, Friedman C, Hripcsak G. A comparison of the Charlson comorbidities derived from medical language processing and administrative data. Proc AMIA Symp 2002;160-4.
  11. Melton GB, Hripcsak G. Automated detection of adverse events using natural language processing of discharge summaries. J Am Med Inform Assoc 2005 Jul;12(4):448-57.
  12. Knirsch CA, Jain NL, Pablos-Mendez A, Friedman C, Hripcsak G. Respiratory isolation of tuberculosis patients using clinical guidelines and an automated decision support system. Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology 1998;19(2):94-100.
  13. Mendonca EA, Haas J, Shagina L, Larson E, Friedman C. Extracting information on pneumonia in infants using natural language processing of radiology reports. J Biomed Inform 2005 Aug;38(4):314-21.
  14. Haas JP, Mendonca EA, Ross B, Friedman C, Larson E. Use of computerized surveillance to detect nosocomial pneumonia in neonatal intensive care unit patients. Am J Infect Control 2005 Oct;33(8):439-43.
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  19. Krauthammer M, Hripcsak G. A knowledge model for the interpretation and visualization of NLP-parsed discharged summaries. Proc 2001 AMIA; 2001 p.339-343.
  20. Liu H, Friedman C. CliniViewer: A Tool for Viewing Electronic Medical Records Based on Natural Language Processing and XML. Medinfo 2004;2004:639-43.
  21. Cao H, Markatou M, Melton GB, Chiang MF, Hripcsak G. Mining a clinical data warehouse to discover disease-finding associations using co-occurrence statistics. AMIA Annu Symp Proc 2005;106-10.
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  32. Lindberg D, Humphreys B, McCray AT. The Unified Medical Language System. Meth Inform Med 1993;32:281-91.
  33. Lussier Y, Shagina L, Friedman C. Automating SNOMED Coding using medical language understanding: a feasibility study. Proc 2001 AMIA; Phila: Hanley&Belfus; 2001 p. 418-22.
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  43. Chen ES, Hripcsak G, Friedman C. Disseminating natural language processed clinical narratives. Proc 2006 AMIA Symp 2006;(in press).
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  51. Starren J, Friedman C, Johnson SB. The Columbia Integrated Speech Interpretation System CISIS. Proceedings of the Nineteenth Annual Symposium on Computer Applications in Medical Care; 1995 p. 985.
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  54. Wilcox A, Hripcsak G, Friedman C. Using knowledge sources to improve classification of medical text reports. Sixth ACM SIGKDD International Conf on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining; Boston 2000 p. 116-7.
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