Streamlining semantic interpretation for medical narratives.
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.
Romacker
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Computational Linguistics Lab, Freiburg University, Germany.
Schulz
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Hahn
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D005069:Evaluation Studies as Topic; D006801:Humans; D008499:Medical Records; D012660:Semantics; D009626:Terminology as Topic