PROPUESTA DE EXTRACCIÓN AUTOMÁTICA DE CANDIDATOS A TÉRMINO DEL DOMINIO MÉDICO PROCESANDO INFORMACIÓN LINGÜÍSTICA. DESCRIPCIÓN Y EVALUACIÓN DE RESULTADOS

The description of a method for automatic extraction of term candidates from the medical field by applying linguistic information is presented. Lexicography, morphological and syntactic rules were used. First, the detection was performed by applying a standard dictionary that assigned the tag ´MED´ (‘MEDICAL’) to the words that could be considered terms. Morphological and syntactic rules were used to try to deduce the part of speech of the words that were not considered in the dictionary (WNCD). Afterwards, nominal phrases that included WNCD and MED were gathered to extract them as term ...