A method for vocabulary development and visualization based on medical language processing and XML.
- 1 January 2000
- journal article
- p. 502-6
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.This publication has 10 references indexed in Scilit:
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