Leveraging PubMed to create a specialty-based sense inventory for Spanish acronym resolution

Alexandra Pomares-Quimbaya, Pilar López-Úbeda, Michel Oleynik, Stefan Schulz

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Abstract

Acronyms frequently occur in clinical text, which makes their identification, disambiguation and resolution an important task in clinical natural language processing. This paper contributes to acronym resolution in Spanish through the creation of a set of sense inventories organized by clinical specialty containing acronyms, their expansions, and corpus-driven features. The new acronym resource is composed of 51 clinical specialties with 3,603 acronyms in total, from which we identified 228 language independent acronyms and 391 language dependent expansions. We further analyzed the sense inventory across specialties and present novel insights of acronym usage in biomedical Spanish texts.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationDigital Personalized Health and Medicine - Proceedings of MIE 2020
EditorsLouise B. Pape-Haugaard, Christian Lovis, Inge Cort Madsen, Patrick Weber, Per Hostrup Nielsen, Philip Scott
PublisherIOS Press
Pages292-296
Number of pages5
ISBN (Electronic)9781643680828
DOIs
StatePublished - 16 Jun 2020
Event30th Medical Informatics Europe Conference, MIE 2020 - Geneva, Switzerland
Duration: 28 Apr 202001 May 2020

Publication series

NameStudies in Health Technology and Informatics
Volume270
ISSN (Print)0926-9630
ISSN (Electronic)1879-8365

Conference

Conference30th Medical Informatics Europe Conference, MIE 2020
Country/TerritorySwitzerland
CityGeneva
Period28/04/2001/05/20

Keywords

  • Acronym resolution
  • Clinical specialties
  • Natural Language Processing
  • PubMed
  • Sense inventory
  • Spanish

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