Resources for assigning MeSH IDs to Japanese medical terms

Resources for assigning MeSH IDs to Japanese medical terms

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Medical Subject Headings (MeSH), a medical thesaurus created by the National Library of Medicine (NLM), is a useful resource for natural language processing (NLP).In this article, the current status of the Japanese version of Medical Subject Headings (MeSH) Centerpieces is reviewed.Online investigation found that Japanese-English dictionaries, which assign MeSH information to applicable terms, but use them for NLP, were found to be difficult to access, due to license restrictions.Here, we investigate an open-source Japanese-English glossary as an alternative method for arm assigning MeSH IDs to Japanese terms, to obtain preliminary data for NLP proof-of-concept.