Constructing Cross-lingual Consumer Health Vocabulary with Word-Embedding from Comparable User Generated Content

arXiv:2206.11612v2 Announce Type: replace
Abstract: The online health community (OHC) is the primary channel for laypeople to share health information. To analyze the health consumer-generated content (HCGC) from the OHCs, identifying the colloquial medical expressions used by laypeople is a critical challenge. The open-access and collaborative consumer health vocabulary (OAC CHV) is the controlled vocabulary for addressing such a challenge. Nevertheless, OAC CHV is only available in English, limiting its applicability to other languages. This research proposes a cross-lingual automatic …

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