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Nonambiguous Concept Mapping in Medical Domain
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Bioinformatics and Medical Applications
Nonambiguous Concept Mapping in Medical Domain
Paweł Matykiewicz1, 2 , Włodzisław Duch1, 3 and John Pestian2 
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Department of Informatics, Nicolaus Copernicus University, Toruń, Poland |
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Dept. of Biomedical Informatics, Cincinnati Children’s Hospital, Medical Center, OH, USA |
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School of Computer Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore |
Abstract
Automatic annotation of medical texts for various natural language processing tasks is a very important goal that is still
far from being accomplished. Semantic annotation of a free text is one of the necessary steps in this process. Disambiguation
is frequently attempted using either rule-based or statistical approaches to semantical analysis. A neurocognitive approach
for a nonambiguous concept mapping is proposed here. Concepts are taken from the Unified Medical Language System (UMLS) collection
of ontologies. An active part of the whole semantic memory based on these concepts forms a graph of consistent concepts (GCC).
The text is analyzed by spreading activation in the network that consist of GCC and related concepts in the semantic network.
A scoring function is used for choosing the meaning of the concepts that fit in the best way to the current interpretation
of the text. ULMS knowledge sources are not sufficient to fully characterize concepts and their relations. Annotated texts
are used to learn new relations useful for disambiguation of word meanings.
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