Biomedical term normalization of EHRs with UMLS

02/08/2018
by   Naiara Perez, et al.
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This paper presents a novel prototype for biomedical term normalization of electronic health record excerpts with the Unified Medical Language System (UMLS) Metathesaurus. Despite being multilingual and cross-lingual by design, we first focus on processing clinical text in Spanish because there is no existing tool for this language and for this specific purpose. The tool is based on Apache Lucene to index the Metathesaurus and generate mapping candidates from input text. It uses the IXA pipeline for basic language processing and resolves ambiguities with the UKB toolkit. It has been evaluated by measuring its agreement with MetaMap in two English-Spanish parallel corpora. In addition, we present a web-based interface for the tool.

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