Clinical Natural Language Processing in languages other than English: opportunities and challenges

Abstract Background Natural language processing applied to clinical text or aimed at a clinical outcome has been thriving in recent years. This paper offers the first broad overview of clinical Natural Language Processing (NLP) for languages other than English. Recent studies are summarized to offer...

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Main Authors: Aurélie Névéol, Hercules Dalianis, Sumithra Velupillai, Guergana Savova, Pierre Zweigenbaum
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2018-03-01
Series:Journal of Biomedical Semantics
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Online Access:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s13326-018-0179-8