Reviews Medical Language Processing : Computer Management o f Narrative Data . Naomi Sager , Carol Friedman, an d Margaret S . Lyman . Rather than providing a detailed overview of eac h area, many low-level detail s of various problems ar e presented . This gives th e book a "bottom-up" rathe r than "top-down" feel . Medical Language Processin g describes the LSP's natura l language processing syste m and its application to th e encoding of semi-structure d medical documents . Thes e documents were discharge summaries and ambulator y care visit reports tha t contained some numeri c fields but also free text areas . Eleven chapters cover topic s including the natura l language processor proper, knowledge representatio n issues, database issues, as wel l as the domain-specific issue s of the medical environment . Various studies concernin g the application of natura l language technology to th e medical domain are reported . Also, appendix materia l closely examines the lexica l classes of the medica l sublanguage and presents sample output from th e system . The chapters describing th e natural language processo r examine the parsing strateg y and
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