Linguistic and World Knowledge in Medical Applications That Involve NLP
Sergei Nirenburg · PsycEXTRA Dataset · 2012
This brief presentation directly mentions only a very small subset of biomedical NLP systems and system modules. There is no implication that this choice is definitive or comprehensive. Linguistics-Based Medical NLP Systems A large number of NLP systems and functionalities have been developed for the domain of medicine. While the application systems differ on a variety of specific parameters, the core NLP functionalities of most biomedical NLP systems are identical to those that support NLP applications outside the biomedical domain. Linguistics-Based Medical NLP Systems Most recent application systems – both general-purpose and biomedical – are hybrid: whenever practicable, they use any kind of available algorithms (statistical or otherwise) and knowledge resources (lexicons, ontologies, various rule sets, etc.) and fill in the lacunae with