WikiMeSH: Multi Lingual MeSH Translations via Wikipedia

Mikaël Dusenne (1) , Kévin Billey (1) , Florent Desgrippes , Arriel Benis (2) , Stéfan J. Darmoni (1, 3) , Julien Grosjean (1, 3)

1 D2IM - Département d'Informatique Médicale
2 HIT - Holon Institut of Technology
3 LIMICS - Laboratoire d'Informatique Médicale et Ingénierie des Connaissances en e-Santé

Objective: The aim of this paper is to propose an extended translation of the MeSH thesaurus based on Wikipedia pages. Methods: A mapping was realized between each MeSH descriptor (preferred terms and synonyms) and corresponding Wikipedia pages. Results: A tool called “WikiMeSH” has been developed. Among the top 20 languages of this study, seven have currently no MeSH translations: Arabic, Catalan, Farsi (Iran), Mandarin Chinese, Korean, Serbian, and Ukrainian. For these seven languages, WikiMeSH is proposing a translation for 47% for Arabic to 34% for Serbian. Conclusion: WikiMeSH is an interesting tool to translate the MeSH thesaurus and other health terminologies and ontologies based on a mapping to Wikipedia pages.

Mots clés: MeSH; Wikipedia; translating

Domaines: Informatique [cs]

Mikaël Dusenne, Kévin Billey, Florent Desgrippes, Arriel Benis, Stéfan J. Darmoni, et al.. WikiMeSH: Multi Lingual MeSH Translations via Wikipedia. 32nd Medical Informatics Europe Conference (MIE2022), European Federation for Medical Informatics (EFMI), May 2022, Nice, France. pp.403-404, ⟨10.3233/SHTI220483⟩. ⟨hal-03984778⟩