Mapeamento e desambiguação de reduções léxicas no contexto da saúde: contribuições da Informática para estudos e pesquisa

Abstract

Introduction: The excessive use of lexical reductions affects all areas of knowledge and can bring interference to those involved in the communication process. Goals: to verify the contributions of Informatics to minimize the interference arising from the use of lexical reductions in the health context. Methodology: Exploratory research with a descriptive approach and guided by the Integrative Bibliographic Review. Based on MEDLINE, Brapci, PubMed, and Scopus databases. The research analyzed titles, abstracts, keywords or full texts, in the period from january 1989 to July 2019. Results: 570 articles in MEDLINE, 572 in PubMed, 217 in Scopus and 2 in Brapci, which 51 were related to the object of the research. The texts were made by researchers in the areas of Information Science, Bioinformatics, Medicine, among others, separated in the categories mapping and disambiguation, defined by the researchers. Alice and Allie softwares stands out as good tools for lexical reductions in scientific literature and for the creation of other natural language processing databases. Conclusion: the Integrative Bibliographic Review brings significant contributions to the advancement of knowledge related to lexical reductions in the context of health, highlighting the need for standardization and disambiguation in order to reduce interferences in the communication process.