---
license: cc-by-nc-sa-4.0
language:
- es
tags:
- medical
pretty_name: SCOVACLIS
configs:
- config_name: default
  data_files:
  - split: AllergyImmunology
    path: terminology/Allergy and immunology.csv
  - split: Anesthesiology
    path: terminology/Anesthesiology.csv
  - split: BariatricMedicine
    path: terminology/Bariatric medicine.csv
  - split: Cardiology
    path: terminology/Cardiology.csv
  - split: Communitypsychiatry
    path: terminology/Community psychiatry.csv
  - split: Dermatology
    path: terminology/Dermatology.csv
  - split: Endocrinology
    path: terminology/Endocrinology.csv
  - split: Epidemiology
    path: terminology/Epidemiology.csv
  - split: FamilyPractice
    path: terminology/Family practice.csv
  - split: ForensicMedicine
    path: terminology/Forensic medicine.csv
  - split: Gastroenterology
    path: terminology/Gastroenterology.csv
  - split: GeneralPractice
    path: terminology/General practice.csv
  - split: GeneralSurgery
    path: terminology/General surgery.csv
  - split: GeneticsMedical
    path: terminology/Genetics medical.csv
  - split: Geriatrics
    path: terminology/Geriatrics.csv
  - split: Gynecology
    path: terminology/Gynecology.csv
  - split: Hematology
    path: terminology/Hematology.csv
  - split: Immunochemistry
    path: terminology/Immunochemistry.csv
  - split: InfectiousDiseaseMedicine
    path: terminology/Infectious disease medicine.csv
  - split: InternalMedicine
    path: terminology/Internal medicine.csv
  - split: MedicalOncology
    path: terminology/Medical oncology.csv
  - split: MilitaryMedicine
    path: terminology/Military medicine.csv
  - split: Neonatology
    path: terminology/Neonatology.csv
  - split: Nephrology
    path: terminology/Nephrology.csv
  - split: Neurology
    path: terminology/Neurology.csv
  - split: Neurosurgery
    path: terminology/Neurosurgery.csv
  - split: NuclearMedicine
    path: terminology/Nuclear medicine.csv
  - split: Obstetrics
    path: terminology/Obstetrics.csv
  - split: Ophthalmology
    path: terminology/Ophthalmology.csv
  - split: Orthopedics
    path: terminology/Orthopedics.csv
  - split: Otolaryngology
    path: terminology/Otolaryngology.csv
  - split: PalliativeMedicine
    path: terminology/Palliative medicine.csv
  - split: Pathology
    path: terminology/Pathology.csv
  - split: Pediatrics
    path: terminology/Pediatrics.csv
  - split: Perinatology
    path: terminology/Perinatology.csv
  - split: PhysicalRehabilitationMedicine
    path: terminology/Physical and rehabilitation medicine.csv
  - split: PreventiveMedicine
    path: terminology/Preventive medicine.csv
  - split: Psychiatry
    path: terminology/Psychiatry.csv
  - split: PulmonaryMedicine
    path: terminology/Pulmonary medicine.csv
  - split: Radiology
    path: terminology/Radiology.csv
  - split: Rehabilitation
    path: terminology/Rehabilitation.csv
  - split: ReproductiveMedicine
    path: terminology/Reproductive medicine.csv
  - split: Rheumatology
    path: terminology/Rheumatology.csv
  - split: SpecialtiesSurgical
    path: terminology/Specialties surgical.csv
  - split: SportsMedicine
    path: terminology/Sports medicine.csv
  - split: SurgeryPlastic
    path: terminology/Surgery plastic.csv
  - split: ThoracicSurgery
    path: terminology/Thoracic surgery.csv
  - split: Traumatology
    path: terminology/Traumatology.csv
  - split: TropicalMedicine
    path: terminology/Tropical medicine.csv
  - split: Urology
    path: terminology/Urology.csv
  - split: Venereology
    path: terminology/Venereology.csv
---
### Dataset Description

**Paper**: [Collecting specialty-related medical terms: Development and evaluation of a resource for Spanish](https://bmcmedinformdecismak.biomedcentral.com/counter/pdf/10.1186/s12911-021-01495-w.pdf)

**Point of Contact**: plubeda@ujaen.es

Controlled vocabularies are fundamental resources for the extraction of information from clinical texts using natural language processing. Standard linguistic resources available in the healthcare domain, such as the UMLS metathesaurus or SNOMED-CT, are widely used for this purpose, but with limitations such as lexical ambiguity of clinical terms. However, most of them are not ambiguous within a text limited to a given clinical specialty. This is one reason, in addition to others, for classifying clinical texts by the clinical specialty to which they belong.

This lexicon contains a collection of medical terms in Spanish classified and weighted by biomedical subdomain (clinical specialty), using MEDLINE titles and abstracts in Spanish as a source of knowledge.

### Licensing Information

SCOVACLIS is released under the [Apache-2.0 License](http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0). 

### Citation Information
```
@article{lopez2021collecting,
  title={Collecting specialty-related medical terms: Development and evaluation of a resource for Spanish},
  author={L{\'o}pez-{\'U}beda, Pilar and Pomares-Quimbaya, Alexandra and D{\'\i}az-Galiano, Manuel Carlos and Schulz, Stefan},
  journal={BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making},
  volume={21},
  number={1},
  pages={145},
  year={2021},
  publisher={Springer}
}
```