Abstract
Indexing the content of medical reports requires that the data to be organized into appropriate data structures which are capable of recording information at various levels. SNOMED is presented as a data structure suitable for housing medical information and serving as a knowledge base for medical information. Issues related to classification of data and problems related to the computerized processing and automated indexing of natural language are discussed.
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