Natural language processing of medical texts within the HELIOS environment.
Comput Methods Programs Biomed
; 45 Suppl: S79-96, 1994 Dec.
Article
in En
| MEDLINE
| ID: mdl-7882677
ABSTRACT
A large number of hospital applications are potentially interested in natural language processing since they currently heavily depend on an efficient use of a huge amount of textual information. The need for systems that are able to accept multiple European languages is of paramount interest, as language barriers can be a strong impediment for large-scale communication in Europe, in particular regarding telemedicine. In the context of the AIM project HELIOS, the Natural Language Processing (NLP) component offers a large variety of medical services according to natural language free input. It allows the multilingual analysis of medical texts (currently in English, French and German) and the storage of the meaning of these texts under a deep knowledge representation that can be queried whenever it is needed. In addition, it provides facilities to handle knowledge source embedded into the conceptual typologies and into the dictionaries. This article aims at describing all these functionalities and their integration into the environment of the HELIOS project.
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Collection:
01-internacional
Database:
MEDLINE
Main subject:
Textbooks as Topic
/
Natural Language Processing
/
Information Systems
Language:
En
Journal:
Comput Methods Programs Biomed
Journal subject:
INFORMATICA MEDICA
Year:
1994
Document type:
Article
Affiliation country:
Switzerland