title: Towards a multilingual morpheme thesaurus for medical free-text retrieval.
abstract: We introduce a methodology for the segmentation of complex compounds into medically plausible morphemes. A tool for thesaurus compilation and management is presented, and design principles for a multilingual morpheme thesaurus are outlined. Our goal is to enhance the quality of medical free-text retrieval by replacing lexically based through morpheme-based search procedures.
authors.affiliation: Computational Linguistics Lab, Freiburg University, Germany.
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Schulz
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Romacker
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Franz
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Zaiss
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Klar
authors.forename: U
authors.initials: U
authors.lastname: Hahn
mesh_terms: D005858:Germany; D006801:Humans; D016247:Information Storage and Retrieval; D008492:Medical Informatics Computing; D019303:Multilingualism; D010865:Pilot Projects; D009626:Terminology as Topic; D018875:Vocabulary, Controlled