gfrer wrote: > Hi, > > The examples I provided were those that I could think of. > > The real question to be asked is: > Why would we want to record the 'language' of a text fragment? > The only correct answer will be: > Because of computational reasons. > > In the light of this there is no real use case for this attribute in > question other than to indicate in what language the author is > documenting its provision of healthcare. > Coding systems will have to be used to indicate in an 'absolute' sense > the meaning of things in a computational and language independent way.
I agree about the use of codes; but when we have narrative text which is not coded, the meaning could be ambiguous for human readers, and also natural language processors, if not more mundane computing functions. I can imagine that this might be more important in psychiatry or other disciplines where a lot of narrative is generated. - thomas - If you have any questions about using this list, please send a message to d.lloyd at openehr.org
