title: JuFiT: A Configurable Rule Engine for Filtering and Generating New Multilingual Umls Terms.
abstract: We here describe JuFiT, an easily adjustable rule engine which allows to filter non-natural terms (i.e., ones usually not occurring in running citation texts) from the Umls metathesaurus and even adds new terms to the UMLS (by rewriting non-natural terms). Unlike previous attempts (with MetaMap or Casper), JuFiT serves multilingual purposes in that it runs for English, Spanish, French, German and Dutch documents, as well - the most prominent European languages in terms of UMLS coverage. We evaluated JuFiT under a variety of experimental conditions and found evidence that it increases annotation quality for English, and most likely also for German and Spanish.
authors.affiliation: Jena University Language & Information Engineering (JULIE) Lab, Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena, Jena, Germany.
authors.forename: Johannes
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Hellrich
authors.affiliation: Medizinische Universität Graz, Graz, Austria.
authors.forename: Stefan
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Schulz
authors.affiliation: Jena University Language & Information Engineering (JULIE) Lab, Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena, Jena, Germany.
authors.forename: Sven
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Buechel
authors.affiliation: Jena University Language & Information Engineering (JULIE) Lab, Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena, Jena, Germany.
authors.forename: Udo
authors.initials: U
authors.lastname: Hahn
mesh_terms: D007802:Language; D019303:Multilingualism; D009323:Natural Language Processing; D017432:Unified Medical Language System