title: Argument identification for arterial branching predications asserted in cardiac catheterization reports.
abstract: The language describing coronary vasculature provides a suitable paradigm for research in semantic interpretation of anatomical text. As a pilot project we investigate the possibility of highly accurate retrieval of arterial branching relationships asserted in cardiac catheterization reports. Our methodology relies on the cooperation of underspecified linguistic analysis and structured domain knowledge. The satisfactory results of formal evaluation on both a training and testing set support the promise of this approach.
authors.affiliation: National Library of Medicine, Bethesda, Maryland 20894, USA.
authors.forename: T C
authors.initials: TC
authors.lastname: Rindflesch
authors.forename: C A
authors.initials: CA
authors.lastname: Bean
authors.forename: C A
authors.initials: CA
authors.lastname: Sneiderman
mesh_terms: D006328:Cardiac Catheterization; D003331:Coronary Vessels / Q000033:anatomy & histology*; D006801:Humans; D008037:Linguistics; D008499:Medical Records; D009323:Natural Language Processing; D010865:Pilot Projects; D012660:Semantics; D017432:Unified Medical Language System; D018875:Vocabulary, Controlled