An Automated Method to Enrich Consumer Health Vocabularies Using GloVe Word Embeddings and An Auxiliary Lexical Resource

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2105.08812v1
• Date: Tue, 18 May 2021 20:16:45 GMT
• Title: An Automated Method to Enrich Consumer Health Vocabularies Using GloVe Word Embeddings and An Auxiliary Lexical Resource
• Authors: Mohammed Ibrahim, Susan Gauch, Omar Salman, Mohammed Alqahatani
• Abstract summary: A layman may have difficulty communicating with a professional due to not understanding specialized terms common to the domain. Several professional vocabularies have been created to map laymen medical terms to professional medical terms and vice versa. We present an automatic method to enrich laymen's vocabularies that has the benefit of being able to be applied to vocabularies in any domain.
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• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: Background: Clear language makes communication easier between any two parties. A layman may have difficulty communicating with a professional due to not understanding the specialized terms common to the domain. In healthcare, it is rare to find a layman knowledgeable in medical terminology which can lead to poor understanding of their condition and/or treatment. To bridge this gap, several professional vocabularies and ontologies have been created to map laymen medical terms to professional medical terms and vice versa. Objective: Many of the presented vocabularies are built manually or semi-automatically requiring large investments of time and human effort and consequently the slow growth of these vocabularies. In this paper, we present an automatic method to enrich laymen's vocabularies that has the benefit of being able to be applied to vocabularies in any domain. Methods: Our entirely automatic approach uses machine learning, specifically Global Vectors for Word Embeddings (GloVe), on a corpus collected from a social media healthcare platform to extend and enhance consumer health vocabularies (CHV). Our approach further improves the CHV by incorporating synonyms and hyponyms from the WordNet ontology. The basic GloVe and our novel algorithms incorporating WordNet were evaluated using two laymen datasets from the National Library of Medicine (NLM), Open-Access Consumer Health Vocabulary (OAC CHV) and MedlinePlus Healthcare Vocabulary. Results: The results show that GloVe was able to find new laymen terms with an F-score of 48.44%. Furthermore, our enhanced GloVe approach outperformed basic GloVe with an average F-score of 61%, a relative improvement of 25%. Furthermore, the enhanced GloVe showed a statistical significance over the two ground truth datasets with P<.001.

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