Généreux, MichelMendes, AmáliaHamon, Thierry2019-03-112019-03-112013Généreux, M., Mendes, A. & Hamon, T. (2013): “Experiments in synonymy: weakly supervised term matching to concepts”, Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Terminology and Artificial Intelligence, Paris, 28 - 30 October 2013, pp. 181-184978-2-9174-9025-9http://hdl.handle.net/10451/37410We describe experiments using distributional semantics to extract and map simple terms from a corpus of genomics in Portuguese. A list of salient terms is first extracted from the corpus and manually verified by a geneticist. We then suggest a list of possible matches for the salient terms among the Unified Medical Language System (UMLS) semantic types and concepts using a Vector Space Model (VSM). Experiments show that salient terms can be extracted efficiently, while mapping them to specific concepts from a large set semantic types proved much more difficult.engconference object