Semantic annotation for concept-based cross-language medical information retrieval

Volk, Martin; Ripplinger, B; Vintar, S; Buitelaar, P; Raileanu, D; Sacaleanu, B

doi:10.1016/S1386-5056(02)00058-8

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Volk, M., Ripplinger, B., Vintar, S., Buitelaar, P., Raileanu, D., & Sacaleanu, B. (2002). Semantic annotation for concept-based cross-language medical information retrieval. International Journal of Medical Informatics, 67(1–3), 97–112. https://doi.org/10.1016/S1386-5056(02)00058-8

Abstract

We present a framework for concept-based cross-language information retrieval in the medical domain, which is under development in the MUCHMORE pro ject. Our approach is based on using the Unified Medical Language System (UMLS) as the primary source of semantic data. Documents and queries are annotated with multiple layers of linguistic information. Linguistic processing includes part-of-speech tagging, morphological analysis, phrase recognition and the identification of medical terms and semantic relations between them. The paper de