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      <journal-id journal-id-type="publisher-id">109</journal-id>
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        <journal-title xml:lang="en">JUCS - Journal of Universal Computer Science</journal-title>
        <abbrev-journal-title xml:lang="en">jucs</abbrev-journal-title>
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      <issn pub-type="ppub">0948-695X</issn>
      <issn pub-type="epub">0948-6968</issn>
      <publisher>
        <publisher-name>Journal of Universal Computer Science</publisher-name>
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      <article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.3217/jucs-024-10-1378</article-id>
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        <subj-group subj-group-type="heading">
          <subject>Research Article</subject>
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          <subject>I.2.6 - Learning</subject>
          <subject>I.2.7 - Natural Language Processing</subject>
          <subject>I.5.1 - Models</subject>
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        <article-title>Learning Concept Embeddings from Temporal Data</article-title>
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          <name name-style="western">
            <surname>Meyer</surname>
            <given-names>Francois</given-names>
          </name>
          <email xlink:type="simple">francoisrmeyer@gmail.com</email>
          <xref ref-type="aff" rid="A1">1</xref>
        </contrib>
        <contrib contrib-type="author" corresp="no">
          <name name-style="western">
            <surname>van der Merwe</surname>
            <given-names>Brink</given-names>
          </name>
        </contrib>
        <contrib contrib-type="author" corresp="no">
          <name name-style="western">
            <surname>Coetsee</surname>
            <given-names>Dirko</given-names>
          </name>
          <xref ref-type="aff" rid="A2">2</xref>
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      <aff id="A1">
        <label>1</label>
        <addr-line content-type="verbatim">Stellenbosch University,, Stellenbosch, South Africa</addr-line>
        <institution>Stellenbosch University,</institution>
        <addr-line content-type="city">Stellenbosch</addr-line>
        <country>South Africa</country>
      </aff>
      <aff id="A2">
        <label>2</label>
        <addr-line content-type="verbatim">Praelexis, Stellenbosch, South Africa</addr-line>
        <institution>Praelexis</institution>
        <addr-line content-type="city">Stellenbosch</addr-line>
        <country>South Africa</country>
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      <author-notes>
        <fn fn-type="corresp">
          <p>Corresponding author: Francois Meyer (<email xlink:type="simple">francoisrmeyer@gmail.com</email>).</p>
        </fn>
        <fn fn-type="edited-by">
          <p>Academic editor: </p>
        </fn>
      </author-notes>
      <pub-date pub-type="collection">
        <year>2018</year>
      </pub-date>
      <pub-date pub-type="epub">
        <day>28</day>
        <month>10</month>
        <year>2018</year>
      </pub-date>
      <volume>24</volume>
      <issue>10</issue>
      <fpage>1378</fpage>
      <lpage>1402</lpage>
      <uri content-type="arpha" xlink:href="http://openbiodiv.net/02D12EB3-DC7F-51B8-809F-08762D4DD547">02D12EB3-DC7F-51B8-809F-08762D4DD547</uri>
      <uri content-type="zenodo_dep_id" xlink:href="https://zenodo.org/record/5505689">5505689</uri>
      <history>
        <date date-type="received">
          <day>18</day>
          <month>04</month>
          <year>2018</year>
        </date>
        <date date-type="accepted">
          <day>05</day>
          <month>10</month>
          <year>2018</year>
        </date>
      </history>
      <permissions>
        <copyright-statement>Francois Meyer, Brink van der Merwe, Dirko Coetsee</copyright-statement>
        <license license-type="creative-commons-attribution" xlink:href="" xlink:type="simple">
          <license-p>This article is freely available under the J.UCS Open Content License.</license-p>
        </license>
      </permissions>
      <abstract>
        <label>Abstract</label>
        <p>Word embedding techniques can be used to learn vector representations of concepts from temporal datasets. Previous attempts to do this amounted to appling word embedding techniques to event sequences. We propose a concept embedding model that extends existing word embedding techniques to take time into account by explicitly modelling the time between concept occurrences. The model is implemented and evaluated using medical temporal data. It is found that incorporating time into the learning algorithm can improve the quality of the resulting embeddings, as measured by an existing methodological framework for evaluating medical concept embeddings.</p>
      </abstract>
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