Unsupervised and semi-supervised morphological analysis for Information Retrieval in the biomedical domain

Vincent Claveau (1)

1 TEXMEX - Multimedia content-based indexing

In the biomedical field, the key to access information is the use of specialized terms. However, in most of Indo-European languages, these terms are complex morphological structures. The aim of the presented work is to identify the various meaningful components of these terms and use this analysis to improve biomedical Information Retrieval. We present an approach combining an automatic alignment using a pivot language, and an analogical learning that allows an accurate morphological analysis of terms. These morphological analysis are used to improve the indexing of medical documents. The experiments reported in this paper show the validity of this approach with a 10% improvement in MAP over a standard IR system.

Domaines: Informatique et langage [cs.CL]; Traitement du texte et du document

Vincent Claveau. Unsupervised and semi-supervised morphological analysis for Information Retrieval in the biomedical domain. COLING - 24th International Conference on Computational Linguistics, Dec 2012, Mumbai, India. ⟨hal-00760114⟩