MedLexSp – a medical lexicon for Spanish medical natural language processing

• Published in: Journal of biomedical semantics Vol. 14; no. 1; pp. 2 - 23
• Main Author: Campillos-Llanos, Leonardo
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: England BioMed Central Ltd 02.02.2023; BioMed Central; BMC
• Subjects: Chemical elements; Classification; Clinical trials; Computational linguistics; Coronaviruses; COVID-19; Data mining; Dictionaries; Humans; Language; Language processing; Libraries; Linguistics; Marking; Marking and tracking techniques; Medical Lexicon; Medical research; Medical Subject Headings-MeSH; Medical terminology; Medicine, Experimental; Methods; Natural language interfaces; Natural Language Processing; Nomenclature; Ontology; Pandemics; Radiation therapy; Semantics; Spanish; Speech; Speech recognition; Terminology; Texts; Unified Medical Language System; Vocabulary; Vocabulary, Controlled; Word embeddings; Words (language); Spain; Medical Lexicon; Spanish; Word embeddings; Natural Language Processing

Medical lexicons enable the natural language processing (NLP) of health texts. Lexicons gather terms and concepts from thesauri and ontologies, and linguistic data for part-of-speech (PoS) tagging, lemmatization or natural language generation. To date, there is no such type of resource for Spanish....