Processing clinical narratives in Hungarian
Gábor Prószéky · 1986
This paper describes a system that extracts information from Hungarian descriptive texts of medical domain texts of clinical narratives define a sublanguage that uses limited syntax but holds the main characteristics of the language, namely free word order and rich morphology. We offer a fairly general parsing method for free word order languages and the way how to use it for parsing Hungarian clinical texts. The system can handle simple cases of ellipses, anaphora, unknown words and typical abbreviations of clinical practice. The system translates texts of anamneses, patient visits, laboratory tests, medical examinations and discharge summaries into an information format usable for a medical expert system. Similarly to this expert system, the information formatting program has been written in MPROLOG language adn its experimental version runs on PROPER-16, a Hungarian made (IBM-Xi compatible) Microcomputer.