TY - JOUR KW - Information Technology KW - NLP KW - Medical Entities AU - Aicha Ghoulam AU - Fatiha Barigou AU - Ghalem Belalem AU - Farid Meziane AB - Information Extraction (IE) is a natural language processing (NLP) task whose aim is to analyze texts written in natural language to extract structured and useful information such as named entities and semantic relations linking these entities. Information extraction is an important task for many applications such as bio-medical literature mining, customer care, community websites, and personal information management. The increasing information available in patient clinical reports is difficult to access. As it is often in an unstructured text form, doctors need tools to enable them access to this information and the ability to search it. Hence, a system for extracting this information in a structured form can benefits healthcare professionals. The work presented in this paper uses a local grammar approach to extract medical named entities from French patient clinical reports. Experimental results show that the proposed approach achieved an F-Measure of 90. 06%. IS - Regular Issue M1 - 3 N2 - Information Extraction (IE) is a natural language processing (NLP) task whose aim is to analyze texts written in natural language to extract structured and useful information such as named entities and semantic relations linking these entities. Information extraction is an important task for many applications such as bio-medical literature mining, customer care, community websites, and personal information management. The increasing information available in patient clinical reports is difficult to access. As it is often in an unstructured text form, doctors need tools to enable them access to this information and the ability to search it. Hence, a system for extracting this information in a structured form can benefits healthcare professionals. The work presented in this paper uses a local grammar approach to extract medical named entities from French patient clinical reports. Experimental results show that the proposed approach achieved an F-Measure of 90. 06%. PY - 2015 SP - 16 EP - 24 T2 - International Journal of Interactive Multimedia and Artificial Intelligence TI - Using Local Grammar for Entity Extraction from Clinical Reports UR - http://www.ijimai.org/JOURNAL/sites/default/files/files/2015/05/ijimai20153_3_2_pdf_97545.pdf VL - 3 SN - 1989-1660 ER -