title: Morpho-semantic analysis and translation of medical compound terms.
abstract: This paper describes an automatic procedure for morphosemantic analysis and translation of compound medical terms. This analysis is of interest for the automatic indexation of medical discharge reports and summaries. Since words with the suffix -osis may have many different semantic interpretations, such -osis forms are taken as examples for a general method that avoids the difficulties in interpreting medical terms as reported in other studies.
authors.affiliation: Département de l'Informatique Médicale, Hôpital Lapeyronie, Montpellier, France.
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Dujols
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Aubas
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Baylon
authors.forename: F
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Grémy
mesh_terms: D000465:Algorithms; D008037:Linguistics; D010363:Pattern Recognition, Automated; D009626:Terminology as Topic