Collaboratively Annotating Multilingual Parallel Corpora in the Biomedical Domain—some MANTRAs

Johannes Hellrich, Simon Clematide, Udo Hahn, Dietrich Rebholz-Schuhmann


Abstract
The coverage of multilingual biomedical resources is high for the English language, yet sparse for non-English languages―an observation which holds for seemingly well-resourced, yet still dramatically low-resourced ones such as Spanish, French or German but even more so for really under-resourced ones such as Dutch. We here present experimental results for automatically annotating parallel corpora and simultaneously acquiring new biomedical terminology for these under-resourced non-English languages on the basis of two types of language resources, namely parallel corpora (i.e. full translation equivalents at the document unit level) and (admittedly deficient) multilingual biomedical terminologies, with English as their anchor language. We automatically annotate these parallel corpora with biomedical named entities by an ensemble of named entity taggers and harmonize non-identical annotations the outcome of which is a so-called silver standard corpus. We conclude with an empirical assessment of this approach to automatically identify both known and new terms in multilingual corpora.
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L14-1047
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Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC'14)
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May
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2014
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Reykjavik, Iceland
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Nicoletta Calzolari, Khalid Choukri, Thierry Declerck, Hrafn Loftsson, Bente Maegaard, Joseph Mariani, Asuncion Moreno, Jan Odijk, Stelios Piperidis
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LREC
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European Language Resources Association (ELRA)
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4033–4040
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Johannes Hellrich, Simon Clematide, Udo Hahn, and Dietrich Rebholz-Schuhmann. 2014. Collaboratively Annotating Multilingual Parallel Corpora in the Biomedical Domain—some MANTRAs. In Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC'14), pages 4033–4040, Reykjavik, Iceland. European Language Resources Association (ELRA).
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Collaboratively Annotating Multilingual Parallel Corpora in the Biomedical Domain—some MANTRAs (Hellrich et al., LREC 2014)
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