title: Galen: a third generation terminology tool to support a multipurpose national coding system for surgical procedures.
abstract: GALEN has developed a new generation of terminology tools based on a language independent concept reference model using a compositional formalism allowing computer processing and multiple reuses. During the 4th framework program project Galen-In-Use we applied the modelling and the tools to the development of a new multipurpose coding system for surgical procedures (CCAM) in France. On one hand we contributed to a language independent knowledge repository for multicultural Europe. On the other hand we support the traditional process for creating a new coding system in medicine which is very much labour consuming by artificial intelligence tools using a medically oriented recursive ontology and natural language processing. We used an integrated software named CLAW to process French professional medical language rubrics produced by the national colleges of surgeons into intermediate dissections and to the Grail reference ontology model representation. From this language independent concept model representation on one hand we generate controlled French natural language to support the finalization of the linguistic labels in relation with the meanings of the conceptual system structure. On the other hand the classification manager of third generation proves to be very powerful to retrieve the initial professional rubrics with different categories of concepts within a semantic network.
authors.affiliation: Department of Public Health and Medical Informatics, Fac de Médecine, University of Saint Etienne, France.
authors.forename: B
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Trombert-Paviot
authors.forename: J M
authors.initials: JM
authors.lastname: Rodrigues
authors.forename: J E
authors.initials: JE
authors.lastname: Rogers
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Baud
authors.forename: E
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: van der Haring
authors.forename: A M
authors.initials: AM
authors.lastname: Rassinoux
authors.forename: V
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Abrial
authors.forename: L
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Clavel
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Idir
mesh_terms: D000043:Abstracting and Indexing; D001185:Artificial Intelligence; D005103:Expert Systems; D006801:Humans; D016347:Medical Records Systems, Computerized; D009313:National Health Programs; D009323:Natural Language Processing; D012984:Software; D013514:Surgical Procedures, Operative / Q000145:classification*; D009626:Terminology as Topic; D018875:Vocabulary, Controlled