▶ Check more resources at github

▶ MEDSPANER: a medical semantic python-assisted named entity recognizer

• • A tool for semantic annotation of Spanish medical texts. 

  • It was originally developed for clinical trial texts, but it can be applied to other medical text genres. 

  • Check the companion GitHub repository.

  • See a demonstration video.

▶ Clinical Trials for Evidence-Based Medicine in Spanish (CT-EBM-SP) corpus

• • A collection of 1200 texts about clinical trials studies and clinical trials announcements.

  • The corpus is annotated with entities of the Unified Medical Language System.

  • Distributed for research and educational purposes under a Creative Commons Non-Commercial Attribution (CC-BY-NC-A) License.

▶ CLARA-MeD tool

• • A system to help patients or non-specialist users to understand medical texts.

  • Currently under development, it still needs an evaluation by end users.

▶ CLARA-MeD Corpus

• • Comparable corpus of medical texts (technical and simplified version) in the Spanish language (24 298 pairs of texts), distributed under a Creative Commons Attribution license (CC-BY).

  • The corpus includes a subset of 3 800 parallel sentences (alignment of technical and simplified version), revised by pairs of experts.

▶ Medical Lexicon for Spanish (MedLexSp)

• • An unified Spanish lexicon of medical terms with linguistic and semantic information.

  • Distributed for research and educational purposes.

▶ Simple Medical Lexicon for Spanish (SimpMedLexSp)

• Lexicon of medical terms and equivalent forms in patient register (simplified terms or paraphrases).

• 14465 forms (including conjugated verb forms, gender and number variants) to date; a subset (4664) is normalized to the Unified Medical Language System (UMLS).

▶ PatientGenesys dialogue system

• • I have collaborated in developing a conversational agent that simulates a consultation with a virtual patient. The system is integrated in the PatientGenesys platform, a serious game aimed at providing continuous education to health professionals.

  • See the demonstration video of the full system.

  • See the video of the English chatbot or the Spanish chatbot.

▶ MultiMedica Corpus

• • I was in charge of the Spanish part of a medical text corpus for the MultiMedica project (2010-2013).

  • I revised the Spanish corpus, prepared the lexicons, and helped in developing an automatic term extractor of biomedical terms in Spanish.

▶ Spanish Learner Oral Corpus

• • A learner corpus of Spanish as a foreign language collected to carry out error analysis.

  • It gathers 40 interviews with learners of Spanish at A2 and B1 level (Common European Framework of Reference) and from more than 9 mother tongues (Portuguese, French, Italian, English, German, Dutch, Polish, Japanese and Chinese).

▶ Español oral en contexto ('Oral Spanish in context')