At 9:09 am +1000 16/8/06, Andrew McIntyre wrote:
Negativity about computable terminology shows the same concrete
thinking as this ;-)
"I think there is a world market for maybe five computers." --
Thomas Watson, chairman of IBM, 1943
The concrete thinking problem is "is machine processable, is good".
Computer languages in use are max 40 years old. SNOMED is 32 years
old. The oldest practically useful computer is how old - <20 years
perhaps. English language is rather older than modern western
medicine. Strangely, we can still understand English written a couple
of hundred years ago.
Modern studies on coding demonstrate considerable intercoder
variability, even amongst experts.
It seems likely to me that computers will conquer natural language
processing faster than clinicians en masse can navigate a controlled
vocabulary with accuracy and speed.
Ian.
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