The authors present an automatic tool able to provide real-time morphosemantic decomposition of natural language sentences in French, German and English. This tool demonstrates the feasibility of Natural Language Processing on standard PC computers and the technology involved has been successfully implemented in daily used applications in several European hospitals. It considerably alleviates the burden of coding with various international classification and enhances the quality of the final results. This tool, delivered on PC platforms, is highly convivial and provides a versatile interface to any existing applications based on the Microsoft Windows standards. Moreover, all high levels functions have been encapsulated in Object Oriented Components and can therefore be reused using the Common Object Model standards to develop stand-alone or Internet applications.
Classification Internet