Themes in biomedical natural language processing: BioNLP08
2008
Themes in Biomedical Natural Language Processing
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Author Information
Author(s): Dina Demner-Fushman, K Bretonnel Cohen, Sophia Ananiadou, John Pestian, Jun'ichi Tsujii, Bonnie Webber
Primary Institution: US National Library of Medicine
Conclusion
The publication presents a collection of high-quality papers that advance the field of biomedical natural language processing.
Supporting Evidence
- Over fifty papers on biomedical natural language processing were published in a few months in 2008.
- The BioNLP workshop has been a consistent venue for presenting innovative work in BioNLP since 2002.
- Ten full papers and 18 poster presentations were accepted for the BioNLP 2008 workshop.
Takeaway
This study shows that many researchers are working on understanding and improving how computers can read and understand medical texts.
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