Title
Transfer-Based Learning-to-Rank Assessment of Medical Term Technicality.
Abstract
While measuring the readability of texts has been a long-standing research topic, assessing the technicality of terms has only been addressed more recently and mostly for the English language. In this paper, we train a learning-to-rank model to determine a specialization degree for each term found in a given list. Since no training data for this task exist for French, we train our system with non-lexical features on English data, namely, the Consumer Health Vocabulary, then apply it to French. The features include the likelihood ratio of the term based on specialized and lay language models, and tests for containing morphologically complex words. The evaluation of this approach is conducted on 134 terms from the UMLS Metathesaurus and 868 terms from the Eugloss thesaurus. The Normalized Discounted Cumulative Gain obtained by our system is over 0.8 on both test sets. Besides, thanks to the learning-to-rank approach, adding morphological features to the language model features improves the results on the Eugloss thesaurus.
Year
Venue
Keywords
2016
LREC 2016 - TENTH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON LANGUAGE RESOURCES AND EVALUATION
Technicality of Medical Terms,Learning to rank,Terminology
Field
DocType
Citations 
Learning to rank,Computer science,Speech recognition,Natural language processing,Artificial intelligence
Conference
2
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.39
0
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Dhouha Bouamor1365.77
leonardo campillos llanos298.39
Anne-Laure Ligozat39822.95
Sophie Rosset439361.66
Pierre Zweigenbaum577385.43