Patent ID: 6915254

Claim:
A method of automatically interpreting a transcribed note using vector processing to generate associated codes, the method comprising the steps of: (a) segmenting the transcribed note into a plurality of segments; (b) applying morphing, parsing and, semantic analysis to the segments to generate a normalized file having a standardized form with parse items, said semantic analysis comprising (1) identifying first type matches between parse items of the normalized file and a plurality of knowledge vectors, each of said knowledge vectors being manually-generated based on prior semantic knowledge and comprising data structure including one or more terms, each term having a weight based on the semantic category of the term, the weight being selected from a high weight, a low weight, and a middle weight, a high weight indicating that a term must be present in a parse item to get a match, a low weight indicating that a term, if present in a parse item, will improve a match, and a middle weight, wherein one or more of said knowledge vectors include a single term representing a numerical interval, wherein the numerical interval is represented in a vector through an interval index that map terms to semantically predefined intervals of acceptable values, the first type matches being indicative of associations to a single code, (2) generating associated codes at least on the basis of the first type matches and on the basis of natural language processing rules applied to the parse items; and (c) outputting the generated associated codes.