Medical Dictionaries for Patient Encoding Systems: a Methodology

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Medical Dictionaries for Patient Encoding Systems: a Methodology (1998)

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by C. Lovis , R. Baud , AM. Rassinoux , PA. Michel , JR. Scherrer

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@MISC{Lovis98medicaldictionaries,
    author = {C. Lovis and R. Baud and AM. Rassinoux and PA. Michel and JR. Scherrer},
    title = {Medical Dictionaries for Patient Encoding Systems: a Methodology},
    year = {1998}
}

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Abstract

The medical language is highly compositional and makes an extensive use of common roots, especially Latino-Greek roots. Beside words devoted to common sense, medical language presents some typical characteristics especially on morphological and semantic aspects of word formation. Morphological decomposition and identification precedes semantic analysis. It is only when these two prerequisites are fulfilled that an attempt to grasp the meaning of a whole expression is made possible. The main aim

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medical dictionary medical language main aim latino-greek root morphological decomposition whole expression common sense word formation common root typical characteristic extensive use semantic aspect identification precedes semantic analysis beside word

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