Automatic Annotation of Medical Records in Spanish with Disease, Drug and Substance Names [chapter]

Maite Oronoz, Arantza Casillas, Koldo Gojenola, Alicia Perez
2013 Lecture Notes in Computer Science  
This paper presents an annotation tool that detects entities in the biomedical domain. By enriching the lexica of the Freeling analyzer with bio-medical terms extracted from dictionaries and ontologies as SNOMED CT, the system is able to automatically detect medical terms in texts. An evaluation has been performed against a manually tagged corpus focusing on entities referring to pharmaceutical drug-names, substances and diseases. The obtained results show that a good annotation tool would help
more » ... to leverage subsequent processes as data mining or pattern recognition tasks in the biomedical domain. Index Terms: development of linguistic tools, annotation, medical domain.
doi:10.1007/978-3-642-41827-3_67 fatcat:6ag2gqlhjfdlbjhkgvmr5s57mm