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Automatic Generation of a Thesaurus for Language and Communication Disorders Based on Natural Language Processing and Ontologies

Abstract:

The scientific, technical, legal, statistical, informative and journalistic production on disability is increasingly extensive because it is one of the most relevant issues on the social agenda and this has led to public awareness has increased and institutional initiatives have proliferated. This has led to an increasing number of documents, references and data available on disability and specifically language and communication disorders, which implies that the activity of document management in this field has gained special importance. This thesaurus is available to consume them through web services and users in order to generate a useful tool for the organization, indexing and characterization of documents, applications, articles and that translates into a more adequate cataloging and a more efficient recovery based on natural language processing techniques and ontologies. Finally, the coverage of the Thesaurus of language and communication therapy is not restricted, in terms of its linguistic scope, exclusively to the Spanish language, but using translation API, language independence is generated, and it is possible to apply it to Any type of application.