re: [Gnumed-devel] need assessment from fellow clinicians

[sjtan]

> You'll get into a quagmire that decades of natural language
> processing and AI have failed to make easy even with
> specialized vocabularies/ontologies as in medicine.
>
>  
I realise that : the idea is that the user configures the parser to his 
particular idiosyncratic style of
rushed note entry during consultation, so that the parser picks up most 
of the items,  e.g. how many times
can a   note  p/ script atenolol 50mg 1 daily   ,  enalopril 10mg 
daily,  chlorthalidone half  daily , be written.

and then

> I can imagine, however, a free-text box that let's me select
> text parts and press <Alt-S/O/A/P> to make them such.
the user has this option, or directly editing the tree.

Another thing that might be useful here is hidden markov model training 
;  as the user corrects the tentative
tree updates, a hmm is trained to make a better parse next time . The 
problem here might be ,
hmm are being used to classify only 2 categories in practical use for 
spam nowadays, but can gnumed
use it to classify multiple categories ?