Host: Japan Society of Information and Knowledge
Name : [in Japanese]
Date : May 28, 1994
Describing medical data or knowledge, natural language representation plays quite important roles. In machine processing of information described in natural language, concept dictionaries that describe meaning and relationship of various terms are very important. Because most of medical terms, like terms in other specialized fields, can be regarded as composite terms, compiling a medical concept dictionary, it seems effective to prepare elementary terms and composing rules. In this paper, the authors, from the viewpoint of elementary terms and composing rules, discuss about inferring conceptual category of medical terms in a large scale dictionary. Discussions in this paper will concentrate to terms that represents various site, organ or tissues in human bodies.
