DTIC MdM Strategic Program: Artificial and Natural Intelligence for ICT and beyond

Accuosto P, Saggion H. Improving the accessibility of biomedical texts by semantic enrichment and definition expansion. XXXIV Congreso Internacional de la Sociedad Española para el Procesamiento del Lenguaje Natural; 2018

We present work aimed at facilitating the comprehensibility of healthrelated English-Spanish parallel texts by means of the semantic annotation of biomedical concepts and the automatic expansion of their definitions. In order to overcome the limitations posed by the scarcity of resources available for Spanish, we propose to exploit existing tools targeted at English and then transfer the produced annotations. The evaluations performed show the feasibility of this approach. An enriched set of texts is made available, which can be retrieved, visualized and downloaded through a web interface

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The linguistic resources generated in the context of this work, including the annotated documents in JSON format, are made available for download from the AsisTerm web site ( http://scientmin.taln.upf.edu/scielo/). AsisTerm provides an on-line interface to search and visualize biomedical abstracts from the ScieLO parallel corpus (Neves, Jimeno-Yepes, and N´ev´eol, 2016) in English and Spanish annotated with UMLS concepts

The full evaluations are made available on-line. ( 1http://scientmin.taln.upf.edu/scielo/ evaluations/Evaluations_AsisTerm.pdf )

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