Entity normalization in a Spanish medical corpus using a UMLS-based lexicon: findings and limitations.

Entity normalization is a common strategy to resolve ambiguities by mapping all the synonym mentions to a single concept identifier in standard terminology. Normalizing medical entities is challenging, especially for languages other than English, where lexical variation is considerably under-represe...

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Published in:	Language Resources & Evaluation Vol. 59; no. 2; pp. 1013 - 1042
Main Authors:	Báez, Pablo, Campillos-Llanos, Leonardo, Núñez, Fredy, Dunstan, Jocelyn
Format:	Article
Published:	Springer Nature Jun2025
Subjects:	Variation in language Romance languages Medical referrals Linguistic analysis Spanish language
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