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"Disease" (Text Content Type)

See Also
- TextCases
- TextPosition
- TextSentences
- Containing
- Entity Types
- Disease
- Interpreter Types
- Disease
- ComputedDisease
- Text Contents
- Protein
- AnatomicalStructure
- MedicalTest
- CognitiveTask
- Neuron
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- Text Content Types
- See Also
  - TextCases
  - TextPosition
  - TextSentences
  - Containing
  - Entity Types
  - Disease
  - Interpreter Types
  - Disease
  - ComputedDisease
  - Text Contents
  - Protein
  - AnatomicalStructure
  - MedicalTest
  - CognitiveTask
  - Neuron
- Related Guides
  - Text Content Types

"Disease" (Text Content Type)

Text identified as the name of a disease.

Details

"Disease" can be used in TextCases, TextPosition and TextContents.
"Disease" corresponds to any mention of a disease (real or not real) in the context of the text.
Homonyms of diseases that are not diseases should not be detected as "Disease" (if the context allows disambiguation).
TextCases[…,"Disease""Interpretation"] attempts to return entities of type "Disease", as Interpreter["Disease"] does.
Any specific "Disease" entity such as
can also be used as a content type in TextCases, TextPosition and TextContents.

Examples

Basic Examples (3)

Find occurrences of diseases in a text:

Get the result as a list of "Disease" entities:

A similar result can be obtained by applying Interpreter["Disease"] to text snippets:

Get properties about occurrences of diseases:

Find mentions of epilepsy and recurrent seizures in a text:

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