NTCIR MedNLP-2: Natural Language Processing for Medical Field

Abstract

Recently, medical records are increasingly written on electronic media instead of on paper, thereby increasing the importance of information processing in medical fields. We have organized an NTCIR-11 MedNLP task for medical records. Our pilot task, MedNLP, comprises three tasks: (1) term extraction for complaint and diagnosis, and (2) term normalization. These tasks represent elemental technologies used to develop computational systems supporting widely diverse medical services. This report presents the objective and data of this shared task.