title: A method for vocabulary development and visualization based on medical language processing and XML.
abstract: A comprehensive controlled clinical vocabulary is critical to the effectiveness of many automated clinical systems. Vocabulary development and maintenance is an important aspect of a vocabulary, and should be linked to terms physicians actually use. This paper presents a method to help vocabulary builders capture, visualize, and analyze both compositional and quantitative information related to terms physicians use. The method includes several components: an MLP system, a corpus of relevant reports and a visualization tool based on XML and JAVA.
authors.affiliation: Computer Science Division, Graduate School and University Center of CUNY, USA.
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Liu
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Friedman
mesh_terms: D006801:Humans; D008499:Medical Records; D009323:Natural Language Processing; D010336:Pathology; D011381:Programming Languages; D012984:Software; D018875:Vocabulary, Controlled