title: Natural language generation of surgical procedures.
abstract: The GALEN-IN-USE project has developed a compositional scheme for the conceptual representation of surgical operative procedure rubrics. The complex representations which result are translated back to surface language by a tool for multilingual natural language generation. This generator can be adapted to the specific characteristics of the scheme by introducing particular definitions of concepts and relationships. We discuss how the generator uses such definitions to bridge between the modelling 'style' of the GALEN scheme and natural language.
authors.affiliation: Medical Informatics Division, University Hospital of Geneva, Switzerland.
authors.forename: J C
authors.initials: JC
authors.lastname: Wagner
authors.forename: J E
authors.initials: JE
authors.lastname: Rogers
authors.forename: R H
authors.initials: RH
authors.lastname: Baud
authors.forename: J R
authors.initials: JR
authors.lastname: Scherrer
mesh_terms: D006801:Humans; D019303:Multilingualism; D009323:Natural Language Processing; D013514:Surgical Procedures, Operative / Q000145:classification*; D018875:Vocabulary, Controlled