Abstract
Automatic understanding of natural language is a complex task due to the presence of ambiguities. In particular, semantic ambiguities which are often immediately and unconsciously solved by human beings, are raised when analyzing natural language sentences by computer. The latter has to know the implicit and contextual information in order to resolve these difficulties. Nowadays in medicine, a considerable effort is deployed to model semantic contents of the medical domain. Such a task is usually performed separately from linguistic considerations. The goal of this paper is to highlight the key issues of basing a medical language processing system on a sound semantic model. To illustrate the requirements and advantages of such a conceptual approach to the analysis process, the experiment conducted to adjust the RECIT analyzer to the GALEN model is shown.
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