{"type":"ScholarlyArticle","title":"Understanding Medical Jargon as If It Were a Natural Language","authors":[{"name":"Alain Bonnet","slug":"alain-bonnet","given":"Alain","family":"Bonnet","affiliation":""}],"abstract":"This paper presents BA OBA B-2, a computer program built upon the MYCIN system [II), that is used for understanding medical summaries describing the status of patients. Due to the stereotypic way the physicians present medical problems in these summaries in addition to the constrained nature of medical Jargon, these texts have a very strong structure. BAOBAB-2 takes advantage of this structure by having a model of this organization as a set of related schtmas that facilitate the Interpretation of these texts. Structures of the schemas and their relation to the surface structure of the text are described . Issues relating to selection and use of these schemas by the program during the interpretation are discussed.","doi":null,"url":"https://ijcai.org/proceedings/1979/21","pdf":"https://ijcai.org/proceedings/1979/0021.pdf","markdown":"https://ijcai.org/proceedings/1979/21.md","bibtex":"https://ijcai.org/proceedings/1979/bibtex/21","volume":{"slug":"1979","title":"Proceedings of the Sixth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence","short_title":"IJCAI 1979","url":"https://ijcai.org/proceedings/1979/","year":1979,"location":"Tokyo, Japan","dates":"August 20-23, 1979","editors":"Bruce G. Buchanan","isbn":"","publisher":"International Joint Conferences on Artificial Intelligence","doi_prefix":""},"section":null,"track":"","number":21,"pages":{"first":null,"last":null},"keywords":[],"videos":[],"references":[{"position":1,"raw":"Collins A., Brown J. S., Larkin K., Inference in text understanding, in Spiro, Bruce and Brewer, Theoretical Issues in reading comprehension, Hillsdale, N. J Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 1978.","title":"Inference in text understanding","authors":"A Collins, J S Brown, K Larkin","year":"1978","venue":"Theoretical Issues in reading comprehension","doi":null,"url":null,"internal_url":null},{"position":2,"raw":"Grosz B., The representation and use of focus in a system for understanding dialogs, Proc. of 5th ljcal, Cambridge Mass, August 1977.","title":"The representation and use of focus in a system for understanding dialogs","authors":"B Grosz","year":"1977","venue":"Proc. of 5th ljcal","doi":null,"url":null,"internal_url":"/proceedings/1977/12"},{"position":3,"raw":"Minsky M ., A framework for representing knowledge, In P. Winston (ed .) The Psychology of Computer vision. New York McGraw-Hill, 1975.","title":"A framework for representing knowledge","authors":"M Minsky","year":"1975","venue":"The Psychology of Computer vision","doi":null,"url":null,"internal_url":null},{"position":4,"raw":"Sager N., Natural language information formatting, the <Hitomatic conversion of texts in a stuctured data base, Advances In computers vo1.17, 1978.","title":"Natural language information formatting, the <Hitomatic conversion of texts in a stuctured data base","authors":"N Sager","year":"1978","venue":"Advances In computers","doi":null,"url":null,"internal_url":null},{"position":5,"raw":"Schank R., Abelson R., Scripts, plans and knowledge, in Advance papers of the 4th IJCAI, Tbilisl, USSR, 1975, pp 151-158.","title":"Scripts, plans and knowledge","authors":"R Schank, R Abelson","year":"1975","venue":"Advance papers of the 4th IJCAI","doi":null,"url":null,"internal_url":"/proceedings/1975/23"},{"position":6,"raw":"Schank, R., Abelson, R., Scripts, plans, goals and understanding, an inquiry into •human knowledge structures, Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Hillsdale, New Jersey, 1977.","title":"Scripts, plans, goals and understanding, an inquiry into •human knowledge structures","authors":"R Schank, R Abelson","year":"1977","venue":null,"doi":null,"url":null,"internal_url":null},{"position":7,"raw":"Shortliffe E., MYCIN, a rule-based computer program for advising physicians regarding ant&microbial therapy selection, Ph . D thesi~. October 1971.","title":"MYCIN, a rule-based computer program for advising physicians regarding ant&microbial therapy selection","authors":"E Shortliffe","year":"1971","venue":null,"doi":null,"url":null,"internal_url":null},{"position":8,"raw":"Siclncr C., A computational model of co- rd erence comprehension in Engllsh, Ph . D. Thesis, MIT, Cambridge, Mass, 1979.","title":"A computational model of cord erence comprehension in Engllsh","authors":"C Siclncr","year":"1979","venue":null,"doi":null,"url":null,"internal_url":null}],"license_note":"Copyright International Joint Conferences on Artificial Intelligence."}