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Journal of Biomedical Informatics 46 (2013) S54–S62 Contents lists available at ScienceDirect Journal of Biomedical Informatics journal homepage: /locate/yjbin TEMPTING system: A hybrid method of rule and machine learning for temporal relation extraction in patient discharge summaries ? Yung-Chun Chang a,b, Hong-Jie Dai c, , Johnny Chi-Yang Wu a, Jian-Ming Chen a, Richard Tzong-Han Tsai d, Wen-Lian Hsu a a Institute of Information Science, Academia Sinica, Nankang, Taipei, Taiwan, ROC b Department of Information Management, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan, ROC c Graduate Institute of Biomedical Informatics, College of Medical Science and Technology, Taipei Medical University, Taipei, Taiwan, ROC d Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering, National Central University, Taoyuan, Taiwan, ROC article info abstract Article history: Patient discharge summaries provide detailed medical information about individuals who have been hos- Received 14 March 2013 pitalized. To make a precise and legitimate assessment of the abundant data, a proper time layout of the Accepted 11 September 2013 sequence of relevant events should be compiled and used to drive a patient-speci?c timeline, which could Available online 20 September 2013 further assist medical personnel in making clinical decisions. The process of identifying the chronological order of entities is called temporal relation extraction. In this paper, we propose a hybrid method to iden- Keywords: tify appropriate temporal links between a pa