Applied Clinical Informatics, Table of Contents Appl Clin Inform 2013; 04(01): 88-99DOI: 10.4338/ACI-2012-11-RA-0049 Research Article Schattauer GmbH The contribution of the Vaccine adverse event Text Mining system to the classification of possible Guillain-Barré Syndrome reports T. Botsis 1 Food and Drug Administration, Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research, Rockville, Maryland, United States 2 Department of Computer Science, University of Tromsø, Norway , E. J. Woo 1 Food and Drug Administration, Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research, Rockville, Maryland, United States , R. 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