Resources for assigning MeSH IDs to Japanese medical terms

Author: Yuka TATEISI ¹
Author Information

1. National Bioscience Database Center, Japan Science and Technology Agency, Tokyo 102-8666, Japan. tateisi@biosciencedbc.jp
Publication Type:Review
Keywords: Japanese language resource; medical vocabulary; MeSH
MeSH: Asian Continental Ancestry Group; Humans; Licensure; Medical Subject Headings; Methods; National Library of Medicine (U.S.); Natural Language Processing; Vocabulary, Controlled
From:Genomics & Informatics 2019;17(2):e16-
CountryRepublic of Korea
Language:English
Abstract: Medical Subject Headings (MeSH), a medical thesaurus created by the National Library of Medicine (NLM), is a useful resource for natural language processing (NLP). In this article, the current status of the Japanese version of Medical Subject Headings (MeSH) is reviewed. Online investigation found that Japanese-English dictionaries, which assign MeSH information to applicable terms, but use them for NLP, were found to be difficult to access, due to license restrictions. Here, we investigate an open-source Japanese-English glossary as an alternative method for assigning MeSH IDs to Japanese terms, to obtain preliminary data for NLP proof-of-concept.