Semi-automatic Construction of a Word Complexity Lexicon for Japanese Medical Terminology
Soichiro Sugihara, Tomoyuki Kajiwara, Takashi Ninomiya, Shoko Wakamiya, Eiji Aramaki
Abstract
We construct a word complexity lexicon for medical terms in Japanese.To facilitate communication between medical practitioners and patients, medical text simplification is being studied.Medical text simplification is a natural language processing task that paraphrases complex technical terms into expressions that patients can understand.However, in contrast to English, where this task is being actively studied, there are insufficient language resources in Japanese.As a first step in advancing research on medical text simplification in Japanese, we annotate the 370,000 words from a large-scale medical terminology lexicon with a five-point scale of complexity for patients.- Anthology ID:
- 2024.clinicalnlp-1.29
- Volume:
- Proceedings of the 6th Clinical Natural Language Processing Workshop
- Month:
- June
- Year:
- 2024
- Address:
- Mexico City, Mexico
- Editors:
- Tristan Naumann, Asma Ben Abacha, Steven Bethard, Kirk Roberts, Danielle Bitterman
- Venues:
- ClinicalNLP | WS
- SIG:
- Publisher:
- Association for Computational Linguistics
- Note:
- Pages:
- 329–333
- Language:
- URL:
- https://aclanthology.org/2024.clinicalnlp-1.29
- DOI:
- Cite (ACL):
- Soichiro Sugihara, Tomoyuki Kajiwara, Takashi Ninomiya, Shoko Wakamiya, and Eiji Aramaki. 2024. Semi-automatic Construction of a Word Complexity Lexicon for Japanese Medical Terminology. In Proceedings of the 6th Clinical Natural Language Processing Workshop, pages 329–333, Mexico City, Mexico. Association for Computational Linguistics.
- Cite (Informal):
- Semi-automatic Construction of a Word Complexity Lexicon for Japanese Medical Terminology (Sugihara et al., ClinicalNLP-WS 2024)
- PDF:
- https://preview.aclanthology.org/jeptaln-2024-ingestion/2024.clinicalnlp-1.29.pdf