Ceusters W, Spyns P, De Moor G
Office Line Engineering NV, Zonnegem, Belgium.
Stud Health Technol Inform. 1997;43 Pt A:396-400.
In the GALEN project, the syntactic-semantic tagger MultiTALE is upgraded to extract knowledge from natural language surgical procedure expressions. In this paper, we describe the methodology applied and show that out of a randomly selected sample of such expressions, 81% could be analysed correctly. The problems encountered are summarised and areas of further investigation identified.