Medical Entity Linking in Laypersons’ Language

• Main Author: Ningtyas, Annisa Maulida
• Format: Article PeerReviewed
• Published: 2022
• Subjects: Health Information Systems (incl. Surveillance); Medical and Health Sciences not elsewhere classified
• Online Access: https://repository.ugm.ac.id/281872/; https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-030-99739-7_63
• Institution: Universitas Gadjah Mada

Due to the vast amount of health-related data on the Internet, a trend toward digital health literacy is emerging among laypersons. We hypothesize that providing trustworthy explanations of informal medical terms in social media can improve information quality. Entity linking (EL) is the task of ass...