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However, KBs in Chinese are necessary when we want to automatically process and analyze electronic medical records (EMRs) in Chinese. Of all, the symptom KB in Chinese is the most seriously in need, since symptoms are the starting point of clinical diagnosis.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Results<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>We publish a public KB of symptoms in Chinese, including symptoms, departments, diseases, medicines, and examinations as well as relations between symptoms and the above related entities. To the best of our knowledge, there is no such KB focusing on symptoms in Chinese, and the KB is an important supplement to existing medical resources. Our KB is constructed by fusing data automatically extracted from eight mainstream healthcare websites, three Chinese encyclopedia sites, and symptoms extracted from a larger number of EMRs as supplements.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Methods<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>Firstly, we design data schema manually by reference to the Unified Medical Language System (UMLS). Secondly, we extract entities from eight mainstream healthcare websites, which are fed as seeds to train a multi-class classifier and classify entities from encyclopedia sites and train a Conditional Random Field (CRF) model to extract symptoms from EMRs. Thirdly, we fuse data to solve the large-scale duplication between different data sources according to entity type alignment, entity mapping, and attribute mapping. Finally, we link our KB to UMLS to investigate similarities and differences between symptoms in Chinese and English.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Conclusions<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>\n                      As a result, the KB has more than 26,000 distinct symptoms in Chinese including 3968 symptoms in traditional Chinese medicine and 1029 synonym pairs for symptoms. The KB also includes concepts such as diseases and medicines as well as relations between symptoms and the above related entities. We also link our KB to the Unified Medical Language System and analyze the differences between symptoms in the two KBs. 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