Morpho-semantic parsing of medical expressions.

Abstract

The task of editing, indexing, storing, and retrieving medical expressions within medical records remains the main objective for the years to come. Therefore, the need for a parser with semantic capabilities able to robustly extract an essential part of the knowledge embedded in the medical record is paramount. The minimal requirements before considering clinical trials are that such a system has to be in position to handle any source of medical information and to conveniently grasp the main key concepts with low silence, good recognition of modalities and acceptable noise. This paper shows that the potential of morpho-semantic parsing is high to meet these conditions. This technique is an important complement to the traditional lexical approach and to expression-oriented systems like controlled vocabularies.