Title Minimalistic approach to coreference resolution in Lithuanian medical records /
Authors Žitkus, Voldemaras ; Butkienė, Rita ; Butleris, Rimantas ; Maskeliūnas, Rytis ; Damaševičius, Robertas ; Wózniak, Marcin
DOI 10.1155/2019/9079840
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Is Part of Computational and mathematical methods in medicine.. London : Hindawi. 2019, vol. 2019, art. no. 9079840, p. 1-14.. ISSN 1748-670X. eISSN 1748-6718
Keywords [eng] coreference resolution ; natural language processing ; nlp
Abstract [eng] Coreference resolution is a challenging part of natural language processing (NLP) with applications in machine translation, semantic search and other information retrieval, and decision support systems. Coreference resolution requires linguistic preprocessing and rich language resources for automatically identifying and resolving such expressions. Many rarer and under-resourced languages (such as Lithuanian) lack the required language resources and tools. We present a method for coreference resolution in Lithuanian language and its application for processing e-health records from a hospital reception. Our novelty is the ability to process coreferences with minimal linguistic resources, which is important in linguistic applications for rare and endangered languages. The experimental results show that coreference resolution is applicable to the development of NLP-powered online healthcare services in Lithuania.
Published London : Hindawi
Type Journal article
Language English
Publication date 2019
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