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Corpus-based error detection in a multilingual medical thesaurus.

Roosewelt L Andrade1, Edson Pacheco, Pindaro S Cancian

  • 1Paraná University of Technology (UTFPR), Curitiba, Brazil. roosewelt.andrade@gmail.com

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Summary

This study introduces a method to improve multilingual medical thesauri by identifying and correcting semantic identifier errors. This enhances cross-language document retrieval accuracy, benefiting medical information systems.

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Published on: February 23, 2019

Area of Science:

  • Medical Informatics
  • Computational Linguistics
  • Lexicography

Background:

  • Cross-language document retrieval necessitates multilingual thesauri for semantic indexing.
  • Medical sublanguage complexities and lexicographer subjectivity challenge thesaurus construction and maintenance.
  • Effective thesaurus development requires robust error detection and systematic procedures.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To describe a method supporting the maintenance of a multilingual medical subword repository (MorphoSaurus).
  • To assign language-independent semantic identifiers to medical texts.
  • To identify and rectify errors in semantic identifiers within the MorphoSaurus system.

Main Methods:

  • Developed a method to support the maintenance of the MorphoSaurus multilingual medical subword repository.
  • Assigned language-independent semantic identifiers to medical texts.
  • Identified semantic identifiers with the most varied distributions when comparing language pairs, assuming similar distributions for closely related texts.

Main Results:

  • The revision of identified semantic identifiers and related lexical items uncovered numerous errors.
  • These errors were subsequently classified and corrected by lexicographers.
  • The quality improvement of the thesaurus was validated using the OHSUMED Information Retrieval (IR) benchmark.

Conclusions:

  • The implemented method successfully identified and facilitated the correction of errors in a multilingual medical thesaurus.
  • The quality improvement of the MorphoSaurus system led to a significant enhancement in retrieval quality for one of the tested languages.
  • This approach contributes to more accurate and efficient cross-language medical document retrieval.