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

• Published in: Journal of biomedical semantics Vol. 9; no. 1; pp. 12 - 13
• Main Authors: Névéol, Aurélie, Dalianis, Hercules, Velupillai, Sumithra, Savova, Guergana, Zweigenbaum, Pierre
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: England BioMed Central Ltd 30.03.2018; BioMed Central; BMC
• Subjects: Clinical Decision-Making; Computation and Language; Computational linguistics; Computer Science; Decision-making; Humans; Language processing; Languages other than English; Natural language interfaces; Natural Language Processing; Review; Semantics; Clinical Decision-Making; Natural Language Processing; Languages other than English

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 insights and outlin...