SIBM at CLEF e-Health Evaluation Lab 2015

In this paper, we report on our participation in the clinical named entity recognition task of the CLEF eHealth 2015 evaluation initiative i.e. to fully automatically identify clinically relevant entities in medical text in French. We address the task by using several biomedical knowledge organization systems (KOS) containing terms and their variations already in French or that we have partially translated in the context of existing projects. The extraction method is available online in the form a web-based service that requests the KOS to extract clinical concepts from Electronic Health Records. It is also available via a user-friendly interface developed for clinicians. Our system has not obtained good results in inexact matching against the gold standard. However, this first participation allowed us to analyze our system and method and will allow us to