From Witch’s Shot to Music Making Bones - Resources for Medical Laymen to Technical Language and Vice Versa

Laura Seiffe, Oliver Marten, Michael Mikhailov, Sven Schmeier, Sebastian Möller, Roland Roller


Abstract
Many people share information in social media or forums, like food they eat, sports activities they do or events which have been visited. Information we share online unveil directly or indirectly information about our lifestyle and health situation. Particularly when text input is getting longer or multiple messages can be linked to each other. Those information can be then used to detect possible risk factors of diseases or adverse drug reactions of medications. However, as most people are not medical experts, language used might be more descriptive rather than the precise medical expression as medics do. To detect and use those relevant information, laymen language has to be translated and/or linked against the corresponding medical concept. This work presents baseline data sources in order to address this challenge for German language. We introduce a new dataset which annotates medical laymen and technical expressions in a patient forum, along with a set of medical synonyms and definitions, and present first baseline results on the data.
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2020.lrec-1.759
Volume:
Proceedings of the Twelfth Language Resources and Evaluation Conference
Month:
May
Year:
2020
Address:
Marseille, France
Editors:
Nicoletta Calzolari, Frédéric Béchet, Philippe Blache, Khalid Choukri, Christopher Cieri, Thierry Declerck, Sara Goggi, Hitoshi Isahara, Bente Maegaard, Joseph Mariani, Hélène Mazo, Asuncion Moreno, Jan Odijk, Stelios Piperidis
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LREC
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European Language Resources Association
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6185–6192
Language:
English
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https://aclanthology.org/2020.lrec-1.759
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Laura Seiffe, Oliver Marten, Michael Mikhailov, Sven Schmeier, Sebastian Möller, and Roland Roller. 2020. From Witch’s Shot to Music Making Bones - Resources for Medical Laymen to Technical Language and Vice Versa. In Proceedings of the Twelfth Language Resources and Evaluation Conference, pages 6185–6192, Marseille, France. European Language Resources Association.
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From Witch’s Shot to Music Making Bones - Resources for Medical Laymen to Technical Language and Vice Versa (Seiffe et al., LREC 2020)
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