# Building a Norwegian Lexical Resource for Medical Entity Recognition

arXiv: https://arxiv.org/abs/2004.02509 · HTML: https://mlsanity.com/paper/2004.02509/

## Key facts

- Cited by 1 papers in the map (data through 14 Oct 2026).
- First posted on arXiv 6 Apr 2020.

## Built on by (most cited first, 1 of 1)

- [Natural Language Processing for Electronic Health Records in Scandinavian Languages: Norwegian, Swedish, and Danish](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2503.18539/) (2025)

## Abstract (arXiv)

We present a large Norwegian lexical resource of categorized medical terms. The resource merges information from large medical databases, and contains over 77,000 unique entries, including automatically mapped terms from a Norwegian medical dictionary. We describe the methodology behind this automatic dictionary entry mapping based on keywords and suffixes and further present the results of a manual evaluation performed on a subset by a domain expert. The evaluation indicated that ca. 80% of the mappings were correct.