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FRASIMED : A Clinical French Annotated Resource Produced through Crosslingual BERT-Based Annotation Projection

Presented atTorino, 20-25 May 2024
Published inNicoletta Calzolari, Min-Yen Kan, Veronique Hoste, Alessandro Lenci, Sakriani Sakti, and Nianwen Xue (Ed.), Proceedings of the 2024 Joint International Conference on Computational Linguistics, Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC-COLING 2024), p. 7450-7460
PublisherTorino : ELRA; ICCL
Publication date2024-05
Abstract

Natural language processing (NLP) applications such as named entity recognition (NER) for low-resource corpora do not benefit from recent advances in the development of large language models (LLMs) where there is still a need for larger annotated datasets. This research article introduces a methodology for generating translated versions of annotated datasets through crosslingual annotation projection and is freely available on GitHub (link: https://github.com/JamilProg/crosslingual_bert_annotation_projection). Leveraging a language agnostic BERT-based approach, it is an efficient solution to increase low-resource corpora with few human efforts and by only using already available open data resources. Quantitative and qualitative evaluations are often lacking when it comes to evaluating the quality and effectiveness of semi-automatic data generation strategies. The evaluation of our crosslingual annotation projection approach showed both effectiveness and high accuracy in the resulting dataset. As a practical application of this methodology, we present the creation of French Annotated Resource with Semantic Information for Medical Entities Detection (FRASIMED), an annotated corpus comprising 2’051 synthetic clinical cases in French. The corpus is now available for researchers and practitioners to develop and refine French natural language processing (NLP) applications in the clinical field (https://zenodo.org/record/8355629), making it the largest open annotated corpus with linked medical concepts in French.

Keywords
  • Annotation projection
  • Crosslingual
  • Medical entity recognition
  • Entity linking
  • Large medical annotated dataset
Citation (ISO format)
ZAGHIR, Jamil et al. FRASIMED : A Clinical French Annotated Resource Produced through Crosslingual BERT-Based Annotation Projection. In: Proceedings of the 2024 Joint International Conference on Computational Linguistics, Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC-COLING 2024). Nicoletta Calzolari, Min-Yen Kan, Veronique Hoste, Alessandro Lenci, Sakriani Sakti, and Nianwen Xue (Ed.). Torino. Torino : ELRA; ICCL, 2024. p. 7450–7460.
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