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May 31st 2022, 11 UTC

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Feikje Hielkema-Raadsveld and Maria-Cornelia Wermuth Schedule presentation for 
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1Drafting natural language descriptions from formal definitionsCornelia

  • Cornelia proposes to invite a presentation by Sara Carvalho on creating natural language definitions from the SNOMED ontology; group in favor.

    Ole: we should also inspect the existing definitions. Are there best practices we need to consider?

2

Customised Machine translation 


Cornelia 

Cornelia proposes to invite Tilde for a presentation on possibilities for customised machine translation of SNOMED

Group in favor, provided Tilde will discuss any open-source data they use/provide

Feikje Hielkema-Raadsveld and Maria-Cornelia Wermuth Schedule presentation for 

3Convention for abbreviations and acronyms

Ole Våge 

International convention: acronym - full term (i.e. separated by hyphen). Most countries have adopted this.

Sweden uses brackets instead.

Netherlands and Estonia add the acronym as a separate synonym.

All countries generally add acronyms only as acceptable synonyms, but allow some acronyms as preferred terms: e.g. MRI, HIV, DNA. It is hard to draw a clear line though when an acronym is allowed as a preferred term.

Belgium uses a set of strict rules concerning acronyms, which Nathalie De Sutter is willing to share with Ole.

Maria-Cornelia Wermuth : from a terminological point of view, the acronym is a synonym.

However, Norway for instance has a rule that each description should be unique, also acceptable synonyms across concepts; that would clash with adding acronyms as separate synonyms, as they are frequently used for multiple terms. 


4JIRA issuesFeikje

SCTF-58 - Getting issue details... STATUS Issue closed with solution: do not use superscript or subscript

SCTF-24 - Getting issue details... STATUS Monica will look into this issue


5Any other businessOleDiscussion to be scheduled later this year: what is a patient-friendly term?

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