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Extended Clinical Discourse Representation Structure for Controlled Natural Language Clinical Decision Support Systems

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  • David José Murteira Mendes

    (Universidade de Évora, Évora, Portugal)

  • Irene Pimenta Rodrigues

    (Universidade de Évora, Évora, Portugal)

  • Carlos F. Baeta

    (ULSNA, Évora, Portugal)

  • Carlos Solano-Rodriguez

    (Universidad de Alcalá de Henares, Alcalá de Henares, Spain)

Abstract

To support an end to end Question and Answering system to help the clinical practitioners in a cardiovascular healthcare environment, an extended discourse representation structure CIDERS is introduced. This extension of the well-known DRT (Discourse Representation Theory) structures, go beyond single text representation extending them to embrace the general clinical history of a given patient. Introduced is a proposed and developed ontology framework, Ontology for General Clinical Practice, enhancing the currently available state-of-the-art ontologies for medical science and for the cardiovascular specialty, It's shown the scientific and philosophical reasons of its present dual structure with a deeply expressive (SHOIN) terminological base (TBox) and a highly computable (EL++) assertions knowledge base (ABox).

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  • David José Murteira Mendes & Irene Pimenta Rodrigues & Carlos F. Baeta & Carlos Solano-Rodriguez, 2015. "Extended Clinical Discourse Representation Structure for Controlled Natural Language Clinical Decision Support Systems," International Journal of Reliable and Quality E-Healthcare (IJRQEH), IGI Global, vol. 4(2), pages 1-11, April.
    • Handle: RePEc:igg:jrqeh0:v:4:y:2015:i:2:p:1-11
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