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%T NormaTex-MapSNOMED: Bridging the Gap Between Brazilian Portuguese Clinical Narratives and SNOMED CT
%A Araujo, Isabela
%A Moro, Claudia
%A Martinez, Layslla
%Y Souza, Marlo
%Y de-Dios-Flores, Iria
%Y Santos, Diana
%Y Freitas, Larissa
%Y Souza, Jackson Wilke da Cruz
%Y Ribeiro, Eugénio
%S Proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Computational Processing of Portuguese (PROPOR 2026) - Vol. 1
%D 2026
%8 April
%I Association for Computational Linguistics
%C Salvador, Brazil
%@ 979-8-89176-387-6
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%X Clinical narratives written in free text contain valuable information for patient care. However, their unstructured nature and linguistic variability pose significant challenges for automatic processing and interoperability. In particular, mapping clinical terms to standardized terminologies such as SNOMED Clinical Terms (SNOMED CT) remains difficult for languages other than English, including Brazilian Portuguese. This paper presents NormaTex-MapSNOMED, a proposed component of the NormaTex framework that focuses on mapping clinical terms to predefined categories aligned with SNOMED CT. Given previously extracted terms, the method leverages large language models (LLMs) guided by a structured prompt to assign terms to target categories. Experiments were conducted on Portuguese-language clinical narratives and evaluated using three complementary strategies: lexical similarity based on Levenshtein distance, contextual similarity using a BERT-based model, and semantic validation using LLMs. The results show that LLM-based evaluation consistently outperforms lexical and contextual baselines across different models, with higher precision observed for disease-related terms compared to symptom-related expressions. These findings indicate that LLMs are a promising approach for semantic mapping of clinical terms in Brazilian Portuguese and can support clinical term normalization and interoperability with standardized terminologies.
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Markdown (Informal)

[NormaTex-MapSNOMED: Bridging the Gap Between Brazilian Portuguese Clinical Narratives and SNOMED CT](https://aclanthology.org/2026.propor-1.115/) (Araujo et al., PROPOR 2026)

• NormaTex-MapSNOMED: Bridging the Gap Between Brazilian Portuguese Clinical Narratives and SNOMED CT (Araujo et al., PROPOR 2026)

ACL

• Isabela Araujo, Claudia Moro, and Layslla Martinez. 2026. NormaTex-MapSNOMED: Bridging the Gap Between Brazilian Portuguese Clinical Narratives and SNOMED CT. In Proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Computational Processing of Portuguese (PROPOR 2026) - Vol. 1, pages 1085–1091, Salvador, Brazil. Association for Computational Linguistics.