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The document evaluates two information extraction tools, MetaMap and YTEX, on their ability to recognize clinical concepts in clinical text. It finds that MetaMap has higher overall precision and recall than YTEX, though YTEX has higher precision on identifying procedures. The most common error was identifying concepts at too general a level of specificity.

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AMIA

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