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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2017 Nov 30.
Published in final edited form as: J Biomed Inform. 2017 Mar 18;69:1–9. doi: 10.1016/j.jbi.2017.03.012

Table 1. Annotation schema for breast cancer forum text.

Topic Abbreviation Description
Alternative ALTR alternative and integrative medicine
Daily DAIL daily cancer-related experience
Diagnosis DIAG diagnoses, measurements, and results of tests
Finding FIND health finding, sign, symptom or side effect
Health Systems HSYS health systems patients interact with, including nurses, doctors, practices, hospitals, and insurance companies
Miscellaneous MISC greetings, uninformative sentence, or any sentence, which does not fit under any other annotation label
Nutrition NUTR nutrition
Personal PERS personal information
Resources RSRC link, pointer, or quote towards an external information resource
Test TEST testing procedures (but not results of tests)
Treatment TREA treatments, including procedures, medications and therapeutic devices