Annotation-preserving machine translation of English corpora to validate Dutch clinical concept extraction tools

Objective To explore the feasibility of validating Dutch concept extraction tools using annotated corpora translated from English, focusing on preserving annotations during translation and addressing the scarcity of non-English annotated clinical corpora. Materials and Methods Three annotated corpora were standardized and translated from English to Dutch using 2 machine translation services, Google Translate and OpenAI GPT-4, with annotations preserved through a proposed method of embedding annotations in the text before translation. The performance of 2 concept extraction tools, MedSpaCy and... Mehr ...