MENELAS: an access system for medical records using natural language.
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.
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DIAM-INSERM U.194 and SIM, Service d'Informatique Médicale, Assistance Publique-Hôpitaux de Paris, France.
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