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Analysis of context-dependent errors in the medical domain in Spanish: a corpus-based study

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dc.contributor.authorLópez Hernández, Jésica
dc.contributor.authorMolina Molina, Fernando
dc.contributor.authorAlmela, Ángela
dc.contributor.departmentFilología Inglesa
dc.date.accessioned2026-02-19T09:50:28Z
dc.date.available2026-02-19T09:50:28Z
dc.date.copyright© The Author(s) 2023.
dc.date.issued2023-01-18
dc.description.abstractThis corpus-based study aimed to investigate the presence of context-dependent linguistic errors in a corpus of clinical reports. The data were taken from a corpus comprising more than 2 million words and made up of clinical reports from emergency medicine, intensive care unit, general surgery, and psychiatry. Quantitative and qualitative analyses were carried out. A language model based on n-grams was developed for the detection of errors, parameters for the selection of cases were defined, and a classification tool was implemented. The findings indicated that emergency medicine was the medical specialty with the highest number of context-dependent errors and that the most frequent type of error was omission of written accent. Furthermore, the analysis revealed the presence of errors of competence due to the incorrect application of the linguistic norm of Spanish, phenomena of phonetic similarity, and composition of words; it is also worth noting that performance errors occurred due to rapid typing on the keyboard. This study constituted the first analysis and creation of a typology of context-dependent errors for the medical domain in Spanish. It contributed to the design of a module based on linguistic knowledge that can be used for the development and improvement of automatic correction systems that, in turn, are used for data processing in medicine.
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dc.identifier.citationSAGE Open, 2023, Volume 13, Issue 1
dc.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.1177/21582440221148454
dc.identifier.eissn2158-2440
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10201/207884
dc.languageeng
dc.publisherSAGE Publications
dc.relationThis work was supported by the Spanish National Research Agency (MCIN/ AEI /10.13039/501100011033) through project LaTe4PSP (PID2019-107652RB-I00/AEI/10.13039/501100011033). Furthermore, Jésica López-Hernández has been supported by the Ministry of Education of Spain through the national program “Ayudas para la Formación de Profesorado Universitario” (FPU), with reference FPU16/03324, of State Programme for the Promotion of Talent and its Employability.
dc.relation.publisherversionhttps://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/21582440221148454
dc.rightsAttribution 4.0 International*
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dc.subjectClassification of linguistic errors
dc.subjectContext dependent errors
dc.subjectError analysis
dc.subjectMedicine corpus
dc.subjectAutomatic spell checking
dc.subject.odsObjetivo 3: Salud
dc.titleAnalysis of context-dependent errors in the medical domain in Spanish: a corpus-based study
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