MetaMap is a Superior Baseline to a Standard Document Retrieval Engine for the Task of Finding Patient Cohorts in Clinical Free Text.

@inproceedings{cohen-2011-metamap, author = {K. Bretonnel Cohen and Tom Christiansen and Lawrence E. Hunter}, editor = {Ellen M. Voorhees and Lori P. Buckland}, title = {{MetaMap is a Superior Baseline to a Standard Document Retrieval Engine for the Task of Finding Patient Cohorts in Clinical Free Text}}, booktitle = {{Proceedings of The Twentieth Text REtrieval Conference, TREC 2011, Gaithersburg, Maryland, USA, November 15-18, 2011}}, series = {NIST Special Publication}, volume = {500-296}, publisher = {National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)}, year = {2011}, url = {http://trec.nist.gov/pubs/trec20/papers/UCSOM_BTMG.medical.new.pdf} }