Genomics Inform.  2019 Jun;17(2):e16. 10.5808/GI.2019.17.2.e16.

Resources for assigning MeSH IDs to Japanese medical terms

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  • 1National Bioscience Database Center, Japan Science and Technology Agency, Tokyo 102-8666, Japan. tateisi@biosciencedbc.jp

Abstract

Medical Subject Headings (MeSH), a medical thesaurus created by the National Library of Medicine (NLM), is a useful resource for natural language processing (NLP). In this article, the current status of the Japanese version of Medical Subject Headings (MeSH) is reviewed. Online investigation found that Japanese-English dictionaries, which assign MeSH information to applicable terms, but use them for NLP, were found to be difficult to access, due to license restrictions. Here, we investigate an open-source Japanese-English glossary as an alternative method for assigning MeSH IDs to Japanese terms, to obtain preliminary data for NLP proof-of-concept.

Keyword

Japanese language resource; medical vocabulary; MeSH

MeSH Terms

Asian Continental Ancestry Group*
Humans
Licensure
Medical Subject Headings
Methods
National Library of Medicine (U.S.)
Natural Language Processing
Vocabulary, Controlled
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