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Proceedings of the Annual Symposium on Computer Application in Medical Care logoLink to Proceedings of the Annual Symposium on Computer Application in Medical Care
. 1993:289–293.

Modelling for natural language understanding.

R Baud 1, C Lovis 1, L Alpay 1, A M Rassinoux 1, J R Scherrer 1, A Nowlan 1, A Rector 1
PMCID: PMC2248520  PMID: 8130480

Abstract

Natural Language Understanding (NLU) is a rapidly growing field in medical informatics. Its potential for tomorrow's applications is important. However, it is limited by its ability to ground its components on a solid model of the domain. This opens the way for the emergence of the discipline of medical domain modelling, as part of the vast field of Knowledge Base (KB) engineering. This article aims at describing the current development of a multilingual natural language system, strongly oriented towards the semantics of the domain. Special emphasis is presently given to the task of building a domain model, and to establish direct links with the language platform. The result is a model-driven NLU system. Numerous benefits are expected in the long term.

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