Issues in the Structuring and Acquisition of an Ontology for Medical Language Understanding

• DOI: 10.1055/s-0038-1634577
• Publication Date: 2018-03-20T06:09:11Z
• Authors: B. Bachimont; J. Bouaud; J. Charlet; J.-F. Boisvieux; P. Zweigenbaum
• Keywords: Structuring

Medical natural language understanding basically aims at representing the contents of medical texts in a formal, conceptual representation. The process itself increasingly relies on body domain knowledge, generally expressed same formalism. design such representation is key knowledge-acquisition issue. When most important point to ensure that formal exploitation knowledge conforms its meaning domain. We examined some methodological and theoretical principles enforce this conformity. These result from our experience MENELAS, project.