2013 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

Orthographic Disambiguation Incorporating Transliteration, Typo and Other Similar Phenomena

Research Project

Project/Area Number	23680013
Research Category	Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists (A)
Allocation Type	Single-year Grants
Research Field	Intelligent informatics
Research Institution	Kyoto University (2013) The University of Tokyo (2011-2012)
Principal Investigator	ARAMAKI Eiji 京都大学, デザイン学ユニット, 准教授 (70401073)
Project Period (FY)	2011-04-01 – 2014-03-31
Keywords	自然言語処理 / 医療情報学
Research Abstract	Medical records are increasingly written on electronic media instead of on paper, which has radically increased the importance of information processing techniques in medical fields. Nevertheless, the state of usage of information and communication technologies (ICT) in medical fields is said to 10 years behind that in other fields. By processing large amounts of medical records and obtaining knowledge from them, great potential exist in assisting more precise and timely treatments. Such assistance can save lives and provide better quality of life. The goal of this project is to disambiguate medical terms, especially disease names, in medical records. We also handle transliteration, typo and other similar phenomena.

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