TeSSI® (Terminology Supported Semantic Indexing) is a state-of-the-art tool that improves upon the existing search and retrieval
tools by extracting the meaning out of medical free text and placing the resulting
medical ‘concepts’ in the document index instead of terms. This creates a very powerful
environment allowing healthcare knowledge seekers to query content stores in natural
language and retrieve highly relevant information with great accuracy.
TeSSI® performs automated information extraction of medical facts out of free text
medical documents and feeds them automatically into predefined templates or rules
engines for further processing and analysis- a clear market differentiator.
TeSSI®
also has the ability to automatically categorize and cluster documents base on its
understanding of their content.
TeSSI® represents a set of software components that perform semantic indexing,
semantic searching, coding and information extraction. Instead of creating indexes
containing words, TeSSI® creates indexes containing concepts, which are individual
units of meaning that remain independent of language. The medical intelligence that
TeSSI®
needs to perform these activities is present in
L&C’s LinkBase®
medical ontology.
The complete TeSSI® semantic indexing and search process
can be implemented as an automated
mechanism without the use of a manual intervention, or it can be deployed in an auto-assist
mode depending on the needs of the customer.
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