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. 1982;12(1):43-56.
doi: 10.1016/0010-4825(82)90011-7.

Automatic encoding of clinical narrative

N Sager, I D Bross, G Story, P Bastedo, E Marsh, D Shedd

Automatic encoding of clinical narrative

N Sager et al. Comput Biol Med. 1982.

Abstract

An experiment in the automatic encoding of English-language medical data is described. The encoding program has two stages. First, the free-text input is parsed and the information is arranged in a tabular format by a general-purpose natural language processor developed at New York University. Then a simple code-dependent subprogram assigns numerical values to the entries on the basis of the positions the input words occupy in the information format. Results of a blind test of the encoding program using the code employed at Roswell Park Memorial Institute for earliest symptoms of head-neck cancer are presented.

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