A multi-lingual architecture for building a normalised conceptual representation from medical language.
Pierre Zweigenbaum, Bruno Bachimont, Jacques Bouaud, Jean Charlet, J F Boisvieux · PubMed · 1995
The overall goal of MENELAS is to provide better access to the information contained in natural language patient discharge summaries (PDSs), through the design and implementation of a prototype able to analyse medical texts. The approach taken by MENELAS is based on the following key principles: (i) to maximise the usefulness of natural language analysis and the usability of its results, the output of natural language analysis must be a normalised conceptual representation of medical information; and (ii) to maximise the reuse of resources, language analysis should be domain-independent and conceptual representation should be language-independent. This paper discusses the results obtained and the issues raised when implementing these principles during the project.