We present a large Norwegian lexical resource of categorized medical terms. The resource merges information from large medical databases, and contains over 77,000 unique entries, including automatically mapped terms from a Norwegian medical dictionary. We describe the methodology behind this automatic dictionary entry mapping based on keywords and suffixes and further present the results of a manual evaluation performed on a subset by a domain expert. The evaluation indicated that ca. 80% of the mappings were correct.
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@article{arxiv.2004.02509,
title = {Building a Norwegian Lexical Resource for Medical Entity Recognition},
author = {Ildikó Pilán and Pål H. Brekke and Lilja Øvrelid},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2004.02509},
year = {2020}
}