Philippe AMELINE wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Since I missed the starting point of this thread, I may un-properly 
> answer ; however I can say from the work we are doing that there is a 
> great difference between a system based on an ontology and a system 
> based on free text annotated by a coding system.
>
> The fist one allows structured description (knowledge management 
> field) while the other remains in the field of classification (data 
> management : text index keeping and epidemiology). 

And I have to agree 100%.  But I doubt if Gerard really disagrees with this.

- thomas



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