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Anonymization of personal data is a legal requirement for their use as part of a research project. In the context of developing a tool for detecting hospital-acquired infections, 2000 medical documents were needed for the research project ALADIN. To help annotators to anonymize this corpus of documents, a tool for the anonymization has been developed, relying on Natural Language Processing techniques. The recall, precision and F-score of the automatic phase of the anonymizer were respectively 79.7, 85.2 and 82.4%. The gold- standard used for the evaluation was the manual anonymization of the documents. The performance of the automatic anonymization can still be improved but the tool is already a considerable help in this process in terms of saving time and in terms of quality of anonymization (including the accuracy of labeling anonymized terms and computation of time duration).
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Gicquel, Q. et al. (2011). Évaluation d’un outil d’aide á l’anonymisation des documents médicaux basé sur le traitement automatique du langage naturel. In: Staccini, P.M., Harmel, A., Darmoni, S.J., Gouider, R. (eds) Systèmes d’information pour l’amélioration de la qualité en santé. Informatique et Santé, vol 1. Springer, Paris. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-2-8178-0285-5_15
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