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Spanish Named Entity Recognition in the Biomedical Domain

  • Viviana CotikEmail author
  • Horacio Rodríguez
  • Jorge Vivaldi
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Part of the Communications in Computer and Information Science book series (CCIS, volume 898)

Abstract

Named Entity Recognition in the clinical domain and in languages different from English has the difficulty of the absence of complete dictionaries, the informality of texts, the polysemy of terms, the lack of accordance in the boundaries of an entity, the scarcity of corpora and of other resources available. We present a Named Entity Recognition method for poorly resourced languages. The method was tested with Spanish radiology reports and compared with a conditional random fields system.

Keywords

Named entity recognition Spanish Radiology reports BioNLP 
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Authors and Affiliations

  • Viviana Cotik
    • 1
    Email author
  • Horacio Rodríguez
    • 2
  • Jorge Vivaldi
    • 3
  1. 1.Department of Computer Science, FCEyNUniversidad de Buenos AiresBuenos AiresArgentina
  2. 2.Polytechnical University of CataloniaBarcelonaSpain
  3. 3.Universitat Pompeu FabraBarcelonaSpain

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