[Gnumed-devel] natural language parsing

[J Busser]

A friend (actually, the same person who is in a position to share 
some local lab fetcher code) asked me the following. I recall it 
being discussed on-list but wonder if anyone ever got as far as 
pulling together any methodology who might care to discuss it with my 
friend, and/or can point to a suitable approach?

And/or is it something people care to discuss on-list?

> > Hi Jim,
> >
> > I'm wondering whether you know of anyone, or even yourself (I know you're
> > busy so don't lose too much sleep over it) that has knowledge of natural
> > language parsing into SNOMED and LOINC codifications. I'm currently
> > finishing off the basic stuff in the EMR and would like to get into some of
> > the fun stuff.
> >
> > I have done a lit search and found an article which describes couplet
> > searching, i.e. taking a term like "pneumoccocal bacterial pneumonia" by
> > searching "pneumococcal bacterial" and "bacterial pneumonia" consecutively.