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Methods Inf Med 1991; 30(01): 30-35
DOI: 10.1055/s-0038-1634817
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Morphosemantic Analysis and Translation of Medical Compound Terms

P. Dujols
1   Département de l’Informatique Médicale, Hôpital Lapeyronie, Montpellier
,
P. Aubas
1   Département de l’Informatique Médicale, Hôpital Lapeyronie, Montpellier
,
C. Baylon
2   Département de Linguistique, Université Paul Valery, Montpellier, France
,
F. Grémy
1   Département de l’Informatique Médicale, Hôpital Lapeyronie, Montpellier
› Author AffiliationsThe authors gratefully acknowledge the suggestions and contributions of E. Charpentier and X. Mignot which are reflected in this article, and IN-SERM for providing a grant for research, including the work in this paper.
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This paper describes an automatic procedure for morphosemantic analysis and translation of compound medical terms. This analysis is of interest for the automatic indexation of medical discharge reports and summaries. Since words with the suffix -osis may have many different semantic interpretations, such -osis forms are taken as examples for a general method that avoids the difficulties in interpreting medical terms as reported in other studies.

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Medical Language - Morphosemantics - Word Segmentation - Automatic Translation
 

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