Biomedical concept recognition in French text using automatic translation of English terms

Zubair Afzal; Saber A. Akhondi; Herman H.H.B.M. Van Haagen; Erik M. Van Mulligen; Jan A. Kors

Biomedical concept recognition in French text using automatic translation of English terms

Zubair Afzal
, Saber A. Akhondi
, Herman H.H.B.M. Van Haagen
, Erik M. Van Mulligen
, Jan A. Kors

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Abstract

We addressed the task to automatically recognize and normalize entities in a French medical corpus. To increase the coverage of our initial French terminology, English terms were translated into French by two different automatic translators. Indexing with a terminology that contained the intersection of the translated terms in combination with several post-processing steps to reduce the number of false-positive detections, gave the best performance results.

Original language	English
Journal	CEUR Workshop Proceedings
Volume	1391
State	Published - 2015
Externally published	Yes
Event	16th Conference and Labs of the Evaluation Forum, CLEF 2015 - Toulouse, France Duration: Sep 8 2015 → Sep 11 2015

Keywords

Concept identification
Entity recognition
French terminology
Term translation

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Biomedical concept recognition in French text using automatic translation of English terms

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