"Disease" (Text Content Type)
"Disease" (Text Content Type)
Text identified as the name of a disease.
Details
- "Disease" can be used in TextCases, TextPosition and TextContents.
- "Disease" corresponds to any mention of a disease (real or not real) in the context of the text.
- Homonyms of diseases that are not diseases should not be detected as "Disease" (if the context allows disambiguation).
- TextCases[…,"Disease""Interpretation"] attempts to return entities of type "Disease", as Interpreter["Disease"] does.
- Any specific "Disease" entity such as
can also be used as a content type in TextCases, TextPosition and TextContents.
Examples
Basic Examples (3)
Find occurrences of diseases in a text:
TextCases["Cortical reflex myoclonus is thought to be a type of epilepsy that originates in the cerebral cortex - the outer layer, or \"gray matter,\" of the brain, responsible for much of the information processing that takes place in the brain.", "Disease"]Get the result as a list of "Disease" entities:
TextCases["Cortical reflex myoclonus is thought to be a type of epilepsy that originates in the cerebral cortex - the outer layer, or \"gray matter,\" of the brain, responsible for much of the information processing that takes place in the brain.", "Disease" -> "Interpretation", VerifyInterpretation -> True]A similar result can be obtained by applying Interpreter["Disease"] to text snippets:
Interpreter["Disease"][{"myoclonus", "epilepsy"}]Get properties about occurrences of diseases:
TextContents["Cortical reflex myoclonus is thought to be a type of epilepsy that originates in the cerebral cortex - the outer layer, or \"gray matter,\" of the brain, responsible for much of the information processing that takes place in the brain.", "Disease", All]Find mentions of epilepsy and recurrent seizures in a text:
TextContents["Cortical reflex myoclonus is thought to be a type of epilepsy that originates in the cerebral cortex - the outer layer, or \"gray matter,\" of the brain, responsible for much of the information processing that takes place in the brain. In this type of myoclonus, jerks usually involve only a few muscles in one part of the body, but jerks involving many muscles may occur. Cortical reflex myoclonus can be intensified when patients attempt to move in a certain way or perceive a particular sensation.", Entity["Disease", "ICDNine345"]]