Research Article

A Silver Standard Biomedical Corpus for Arabic Language

Table 2

The number of terms for each concept type in the annotated English-Arabic medical dictionary.

Concept typeNumber of terms

Disease or syndrome3,748
Therapeutic or preventive procedure1,119
Sign or symptom508
Mental or behavioral dysfunction386
Diagnostic procedure303
Injury or poisoning265
Gene or genome218
Enzyme166
Bacterium160
Virus117
Hormone71
Antibiotic9
Clinical drug4