Biomedical Entity Linking - Introduction, approaches, challenges

The document discusses biomedical entity linking, emphasizing its necessity in resolving ambiguities in medical terminology to enhance communication between patients and doctors. It outlines the challenges faced in the biomedical domain, particularly with German data, and introduces a three-stage technical approach involving entity recognition, candidate retrieval, and candidate ranking. The author, Anja Pilz, drawn from her background in machine learning and NLP, highlights the importance of these methods for improving healthcare data processing and electronic health record enrichment.