title: MENELAS: an access system for medical records using natural language.
abstract: The overall goal of MENELAS is to provide better access to the information contained in natural language patient discharge summaries, through the design and implementation of a pilot system able to access medical reports through natural languages. A first, experimental version of the MENELAS indexing prototype for French has been assembled. Its function is to encode free text PDSs into both an internal representation and ICD-9-CM nomenclature codes. A preliminary evaluation shows the potential for reasonable coverage and precision. The MENELAS prototype will be enhanced and extended into a pilot system which will be tested in two hospital sites.
authors.affiliation: DIAM-INSERM U.194 and SIM, Service d'Informatique Médicale, Assistance Publique-Hôpitaux de Paris, France.
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Zweigenbaum
mesh_terms: D000043:Abstracting and Indexing / Q000379:methods*; D003196:Computer Graphics; D005103:Expert Systems; D006801:Humans; D016347:Medical Records Systems, Computerized; D009323:Natural Language Processing; D014584:User-Computer Interface