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| Title | Collaboratively Annotating Multilingual Parallel Corpora in the Biomedical Domain―some MANTRAs |
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| Authors | Johannes Hellrich, Simon Clematide, Udo Hahn and 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. |
| Topics | Corpus (Creation, Annotation, etc.), Collaborative Resource Construction |
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Collaboratively Annotating Multilingual Parallel Corpora in the Biomedical Domain―some MANTRAs |
| Bibtex | @InProceedings{HELLRICH14.1064, author = {Johannes Hellrich and Simon Clematide and Udo Hahn and Dietrich Rebholz-Schuhmann}, title = {Collaboratively Annotating Multilingual Parallel Corpora in the Biomedical Domain―some MANTRAs}, booktitle = {Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC'14)}, year = {2014}, month = {may}, date = {26-31}, address = {Reykjavik, Iceland}, editor = {Nicoletta Calzolari (Conference Chair) and Khalid Choukri and Thierry Declerck and Hrafn Loftsson and Bente Maegaard and Joseph Mariani and Asuncion Moreno and Jan Odijk and Stelios Piperidis}, publisher = {European Language Resources Association (ELRA)}, isbn = {978-2-9517408-8-4}, language = {english} } |