Adapting the TTL Romanian POS Tagger to the Biomedical Domain

Maria Mitrofan, Radu Ion


Abstract
This paper presents the adaptation of the Hidden Markov Models-based TTL part-of-speech tagger to the biomedical domain. TTL is a text processing platform that performs sentence splitting, tokenization, POS tagging, chunking and Named Entity Recognition (NER) for a number of languages, including Romanian. The POS tagging accuracy obtained by the TTL POS tagger exceeds 97% when TTL’s baseline model is updated with training information from a Romanian biomedical corpus. This corpus is developed in the context of the CoRoLa (a reference corpus for the contemporary Romanian language) project. Informative description and statistics of the Romanian biomedical corpus are also provided.
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W17-8002
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Proceedings of the Biomedical NLP Workshop associated with RANLP 2017
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September
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2017
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Varna, Bulgaria
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Svetla Boytcheva, Kevin Bretonnel Cohen, Guergana Savova, Galia Angelova
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RANLP
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INCOMA Ltd.
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8–14
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https://doi.org/10.26615/978-954-452-044-1_002
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10.26615/978-954-452-044-1_002
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Maria Mitrofan and Radu Ion. 2017. Adapting the TTL Romanian POS Tagger to the Biomedical Domain. In Proceedings of the Biomedical NLP Workshop associated with RANLP 2017, pages 8–14, Varna, Bulgaria. INCOMA Ltd..
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