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Multilingual natural language processing (NLP), whether it concerns analysis or generation of sentences, requires a sound language-independent representation for grasping the deep meaning of narratives. The formalism of conceptual graphs (CGs), especially designed to cope with natural language semantics, constitutes a good repository for dealing with the compositionality and intricacies of medical language. This paper describes our experiment, as part of the European GALEN project, for exploiting a conceptual graph representation of medical language, upon which multilingual medical language processing is performed.
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Rassinoux, AM., Baud, R.H., Lovis, C., Wagner, J.C., Scherrer, JR. (1998). Tuning up conceptual graph representation for multilingual natural language processing in medicine. In: Mugnier, ML., Chein, M. (eds) Conceptual Structures: Theory, Tools and Applications. ICCS 1998. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 1453. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/BFb0054930
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