{"ID":2848245,"CreatedAt":"2026-06-01T04:54:23.091178241Z","UpdatedAt":"2026-06-01T04:54:23.091178241Z","DeletedAt":null,"paper_url":"https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.26969","arxiv_id":"2510.26969","title":"Frame Semantic Patterns for Identifying Underreporting of Notifiable Events in Healthcare: The Case of Gender-Based Violence","abstract":"We introduce a methodology for the identification of notifiable events in the domain of healthcare. The methodology harnesses semantic frames to define fine-grained patterns and search them in unstructured data, namely, open-text fields in e-medical records. We apply the methodology to the problem of underreporting of gender-based violence (GBV) in e-medical records produced during patients' visits to primary care units. A total of eight patterns are defined and searched on a corpus of 21 million sentences in Brazilian Portuguese extracted from e-SUS APS. The results are manually evaluated by linguists and the precision of each pattern measured. Our findings reveal that the methodology effectively identifies reports of violence with a precision of 0.726, confirming its robustness. Designed as a transparent, efficient, low-carbon, and language-agnostic pipeline, the approach can be easily adapted to other health surveillance contexts, contributing to the broader, ethical, and explainable use of NLP in public health systems.","short_abstract":"We introduce a methodology for the identification of notifiable events in the domain of healthcare. The methodology harnesses semantic frames to define fine-grained patterns and search them in unstructured data, namely, open-text fields in e-medical records. We apply the methodology to the problem of underreporting of...","url_abs":"https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.26969","url_pdf":"https://arxiv.org/pdf/2510.26969v2","authors":"[\"Lívia Dutra\",\"Arthur Lorenzi\",\"Laís Berno\",\"Franciany Campos\",\"Karoline Biscardi\",\"Kenneth Brown\",\"Marcelo Viridiano\",\"Frederico Belcavello\",\"Ely Matos\",\"Olívia Guaranha\",\"Erik Santos\",\"Sofia Reinach\",\"Tiago Timponi Torrent\"]","published":"2025-10-30T19:52:24Z","proceeding":"cs.CL","tasks":"[\"cs.CL\",\"cs.AI\"]","methods":"[]","has_code":false}