Exploring the Latest Highlights in Medical Natural Language Processing across Multiple Languages: A Survey.

Journal: Yearbook of medical informatics
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Abstract

OBJECTIVES: This survey aims to provide an overview of the current state of biomedical and clinical Natural Language Processing (NLP) research and practice in Languages other than English (LoE). We pay special attention to data resources, language models, and popular NLP downstream tasks.

Authors

  • Anastassia Shaitarova
    Department of Computational Linguistics, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland.
  • Jamil Zaghir
    Division of Medical Information Sciences, University Hospitals of Geneva.
  • Alberto Lavelli
    HLT Research Unit, FBK, Trento, Italy. Electronic address: lavelli@fbk.eu.
  • Michael Krauthammer
    Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, CT.
  • Fabio Rinaldi
    University of Zurich, Institute of Computational Linguistics and Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics, Andreasstrasse 15, Zürich, CH-8050, Switzerland. rinaldi@cl.uzh.ch.