IMPLEMENTATION OF A GREEK MORPHOLOGICAL LEXICON FOR THE BIOMEDICAL DOMAIN

This paper presents the extension of a Modern Greek morphological lexicon with medical information pertaining terminology and disease hierarchies, included but not limited to the 10 th revision of the International Classification of Diseases (ICD-10). The utility of the lexicon is manifold: spell checking and correction of medical terms, normalization of morphological variations, disease indexing, browsing into disease hierarchies. The definition and manipulation of lexical entries are achieved with the aid of a specialized editor, called LexEdit . Some basic features of the underlying lexical representation mechanism are its openness to new kind of information, its ability to manage lexical units on morpheme basis and its ability to cope with the complex inflectional system of Modern Greek as well as the existence of marked stress.