1995
DOI: 10.1055/s-0038-1634586
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Representing Clinical Narratives Using Conceptual Graphs

Abstract: Abstract:The analysis of medical narratives and the generation of natural language expressions are strongly dependent on the existence of an adequate representation language. Such a language has to be expressive enough in order to handle the complexity of human reasoning in the domain. Sowa’s Conceptual Graphs (CG) are an answer, and this paper presents a multilingual implementation, using French, English and German. Current developments demonstrate the feasibility of an approach to natural Language Understand… Show more

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“…The obvious advantage of the semantically-driven approach is the robustness of the processor when confronted with agrammaticalities. A semantically-driven parser can more easily take care of agrammatical input thanks to the available knowledge of the domain model [181]. However, it is possible for a syntactically-driven approach (e. g., using a chart parser) to pass partially analyzed sentence chunks to the semantic analyzer that will try to aggregate them correctly.…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…The obvious advantage of the semantically-driven approach is the robustness of the processor when confronted with agrammaticalities. A semantically-driven parser can more easily take care of agrammatical input thanks to the available knowledge of the domain model [181]. However, it is possible for a syntactically-driven approach (e. g., using a chart parser) to pass partially analyzed sentence chunks to the semantic analyzer that will try to aggregate them correctly.…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…al., 1987) or conceptual graphs (Baud, Rassinoux, et. tables, domainspecific abbreviations, missing punctuations).…”
Section: Patient Reportmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…(2) Especially when we speak about qualitative medical language data, there is a need for standardizing the language data in two senses of the word: (i) Standardizing the data by transforming the meaning into a languageindependent representation based on concept systems that support the processing and exchange of that data. This kind of standardization is concept oriented and carried out by what is called indexing [8,9].…”
Section: Answering My Own Questions Creatively Versus Answering Extermentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Especially for indexing, the effort for coding can be shifted to a computerized "coding clerk". This is possible because concept systems provide a conceptual lexicon and grammar suitable for natural language processing approaches [8,9]. However, as outlined earlier, concept systems do not provide explicit questions and instructions for answering them uniquely.…”
Section: What Can Be Said? Versus What Ought To Be Said?mentioning
confidence: 99%