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Natural language processing (NLP) is the automation of processes to interpret and understand meaning in human communications. In the life sciences, NLP assists in wide-scale storage and retrieval of specific “bundles” of clinical data embedded in patient charts which are commonly “free text”. Both expert-system and statistical based NLPs have been in use in biomedicine for over three decades and some have shown an expert-like level of accuracy [1,3,6]. With the advent of electronic medical records, the sheer amount of data necessitates automated means for proper analysis to aid in patient care and research purposes.
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NLP commonly relies on indexing/tokenization, which is a process of breaking down text strings into data bundles. These bundles then need to be understood, which can be accomplished by mapping to clinical ontology. These clinical ontologies provide a means of disambiguating and organizing the mapped concepts to permit more...
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Lussier, Y.A., Crowson, M.G. (2018). Interoperation of NLP-Based Systems with Clinical Databases. In: Liu, L., Özsu, M.T. (eds) Encyclopedia of Database Systems. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-8265-9_208
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