title: Streamlining semantic interpretation for medical narratives.
abstract: We introduce two abstraction mechanisms by which the process of semantic interpretation of medical narratives can be simplified and further optimized. One relates to generalized triggering conditions, the other to inheritance-based specifications of semantic rules. The proposed methodology leads to a parsimonious inventory of abstract, simple and domain-independent semantic interpretation schemata whose effectiveness has been evaluated on a medical text corpus.
authors.affiliation: Computational Linguistics Lab, Freiburg University, Germany.
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Romacker
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Schulz
authors.forename: U
authors.initials: U
authors.lastname: Hahn
mesh_terms: D005069:Evaluation Studies as Topic; D006801:Humans; D008499:Medical Records; D012660:Semantics; D009626:Terminology as Topic