Bootstrapping a Romanian Corpus for Medical Named Entity Recognition

Maria Mitrofan


Abstract
Named Entity Recognition (NER) is an important component of natural language processing (NLP), with applicability in biomedical domain, enabling knowledge-discovery from medical texts. Due to the fact that for the Romanian language there are only a few linguistic resources specific to the biomedical domain, it was created a sub-corpus specific to this domain. In this paper we present a newly developed Romanian sub-corpus for medical-domain NER, which is a valuable asset for the field of biomedical text processing. We provide a description of the sub-corpus, informative statistics about data-composition and we evaluate an automatic NER tool on the newly created resource.
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R17-1066
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Proceedings of the International Conference Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing, RANLP 2017
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September
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2017
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Varna, Bulgaria
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Ruslan Mitkov, Galia Angelova
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RANLP
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INCOMA Ltd.
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501–509
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https://doi.org/10.26615/978-954-452-049-6_066
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10.26615/978-954-452-049-6_066
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Maria Mitrofan. 2017. Bootstrapping a Romanian Corpus for Medical Named Entity Recognition. In Proceedings of the International Conference Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing, RANLP 2017, pages 501–509, Varna, Bulgaria. INCOMA Ltd..
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