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. 1994:230–234.

Automatic encoding into SNOMED III: a preliminary investigation.

N Sager 1, M Lyman 1, N T Nhàn 1, L J Tick 1
PMCID: PMC2247938  PMID: 7949925

Abstract

The Linguistic String Project (LSP) medical language processing (MLP) system converts narrative clinical reports into database tables of patient data. A procedure for mapping the output of the LSP MLP system into SNOMED III codes was developed. Preliminary results and further requirements are discussed.

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