Annotation-preserving machine translation of English corpora to validate Dutch clinical concept extraction tools.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To explore the feasibility of validating Dutch concept extraction tools using annotated corpora translated from English, focusing on preserving annotations during translation and addressing the scarcity of non-English annotated clinical corpora.

Materials and methods

Three annotated corpora were standardized and translated from English to Dutch using 2 machine translation services, Google Translate and OpenAI GPT-4, with annotations preserved through a proposed method of embedding annotations in the text before translation. The performance of 2 concept extraction tools, MedSpaCy and MedCAT, was assessed across the corpora in both Dutch and English.

Results

The translation process effectively generated Dutch annotated corpora and the concept extraction tools

SUBMITTER: Seinen TM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11258409 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature