Efficient Reuse of Natural Language Processing Models for Phenotype-Mention Identification in Free-text Electronic Medical Records: A Phenotype Embedding Approach

Honghan Wu   ^{1, 2, 3} , BEng, DPhil ;   Karen Hodgson   ⁴ , DPhil ;   Sue Dyson   ⁴ , MD ;   Katherine I Morley   ^{4, 5, 6} , DPhil ;   Zina M Ibrahim   ^{4, 7} , DPhil ;   Ehtesham Iqbal   ⁴ , BEng ;   Robert Stewart   ^{4, 5} , MD, DPhil ;   Richard JB Dobson   ^{4, 7} , DPhil ;   Cathie Sudlow   ^{1, 3} , MD, DPhil

¹ Centre for Medical Informatics, Usher Institute, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United Kingdom

² School of Computer and Software, Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology, Nanjing, China

³ Health Data Research UK, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United Kingdom

⁴ Department of Psychosis Studies, Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience, King’s College London, London, United Kingdom

⁵ South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust, London, United Kingdom

⁶ Centre for Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Melbourne School of Global and Population Health, The University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia

⁷ Health Data Research UK, University College London, London, United Kingdom