Esfuerzos para fomentar la minería de textos en biomedicina más allá del inglés: el plan estratégico nacional español para las tecnologías del lenguaje

• Published in: Procesamiento del Lenguaje Natural 2017-09, Vol.59, p.141
• Main Authors: Villegas, Marta, de la Peña, Santiago, Ander Intxaurrondo, Santamaria, Jesus, Krallinger, Martin
• Format: Article
• Language: Spanish
• Subjects: Data mining; Documents; English language; Language; Logos; Medical language; Natural language processing; R&D; Research & development; Spanish language; Technical services; Word processing
• ISSN: 1135-5948; 1989-7553

A considerable effort has been made to apply text mining technologies to biomedical literature and clinical records written in English, while attempts to process documents in other languages have attracted far less attention despite the key practical relevance. Due to the considerable number of biomedical documents written in Spanish, there is a pressing need to be able to access biomedical and clinical text mining resources developed for this high impact language. To address this issue, the Spanish Ministry of State for Telecommunications launched the Plan for Promotion of Language Technologies in the field of biomedicine with the aim of providing specialized technical support to research and development of software solutions adapted to this domain. This article briefly describes the main lines of action of this project in its initial stages, namely: (a) identification of relevant biomedical NLP resources/tools, (b) examining and enabling system interoperability aspects, (c) to outline strategies and support for evaluation settings, (d) to disseminate the project and its results, and (e) to align and collaborate with other related national and international projects. Moreover we have identified some of the critical biomedical text processing tasks that require additional research and availability of tools.