Ontology-Based Semantic Annotation of French Psychiatric Clinical Documents

Abstract

Building a timeline of psychiatric patient profiles can answer many valuable questions, such as how important medical events affect the progression of psychosis in patients. However, the majority of text information extraction and semantic annotation tools, as well as domain ontologies, are only available in English and cannot be easily extended to other languages, due to fundamental linguistic differences. In this paper, we describe a semantic annotation system based on an ontology developed in the PsyCARE framework. Our system is being manually evaluated by two annotators on 50 patient discharge summaries, showing promising results.