A Pilot Study for Enriching the Romanian WordNet with Medical Terms

Maria Mitrofan, Verginica Barbu Mititelu, Grigorina Mitrofan


Abstract
This paper presents the preliminary investigations in the process of integrating a specialized vocabulary, namely medical terminology, into the Romanian wordnet. We focus here on four classes from this vocabulary: anatomy (or body parts), disorders, medical procedures and chemicals. In this pilot study we selected two large concepts from each class and created the Romanian terminological (sub)trees for each of them, starting from a medical thesaurus (SNOMED CT) and translating the terms, process which raised various challenges, all of them asking for the expertise of a specialist in the health care domain. The integration of these (sub)trees in the Romanian wordnet also required careful decision making, given the structural differences between a wordnet and a terminological thesaurus. They are presented and discussed herein.
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2018.clib-1.16
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Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Computational Linguistics in Bulgaria (CLIB 2018)
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May
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2018
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Sofia, Bulgaria
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Department of Computational Linguistics, Institute for Bulgarian Language, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences
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126–134
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Maria Mitrofan, Verginica Barbu Mititelu, and Grigorina Mitrofan. 2018. A Pilot Study for Enriching the Romanian WordNet with Medical Terms. In Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Computational Linguistics in Bulgaria (CLIB 2018), pages 126–134, Sofia, Bulgaria. Department of Computational Linguistics, Institute for Bulgarian Language, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences.
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