Processing Clinical Narratives in Hungarian

IIHs pape]' descr ibes a systemU~at extracl :s in1:ormal:ion lrom 14urlgarlan d e s c r i p t i v e texLs o£ medical domain. lexLs of cZinJca] nam'atJves def im; a sublanguao e that uses ] imite.d synLax bui: holds the main charac ter i s t Jcs o£ t:he language, namely #roe word order and r;ich mm'pho]ogy. We o f f e r a f a i r l y general parsir lo method fo r :[ree word orde£ ]anguaoes and the way how to use ~-1: fo r pars ing Hungarian c] in~ca] t ex t s , lhe system can hand]e si.mple cases e[ e l . ] ipses, anaphoT'a, Luqknown woFd8 al/{] LypJ ca:[ abbrev:i.at]ons ef e] ] n:iea] p rac t i ce . lhe system trans].ates texts {d! anamneses, paLJeet v: is iLs, ]ahoral :ory l:esl:s, medlcai examinations aed discharge sumnlaries Jnl:o an JnJ:ornlaL]on :[ormaL u'.~abZI.u fo r a ined]ea:l exper I: aystem. Szm:i.] aKly to Lhis exper t system, Uqe :in1:ormal;:i.on formatt inO prograln has been wr:il:Len in MPROI OG language and JLs experJmenta] versj.on ['lllls OIl PROPER-]6, a tlungarian made (]BM-XI compat ib]e) m]c~:ucomputer.