On different roles of natural language information in medicine.
In this paper the authors analyze the main different function types of language in medical environment in different communicative situations and descriptive tasks. These functions are categorized as knowledge transfer, documentation, directive function, expression of emotions. The computer representation of the information have to be different according to the different tasks. The paper highlights the most important differences and concludes that further research is necessary in the details.
Surján
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Haynal University of Health Sciences, Budapest, Hungary.
Balkányi
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D003142:Communication; D004644:Emotions; D006801:Humans; D007256:Information Systems; D009323:Natural Language Processing; D009626:Terminology as Topic