Biomedical Concept Recognition in French Text Using Automatic Translation of English Terms

Afzal, Zubair; Akhondi, Saber; van Haagen, Herman H; van Mulligen, Erik M.; Kors, Jan

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.

Year:

2015

Type of Publication:

Book

Publisher:

CLEF