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After reading this chapter, you should know the answers to these questions:
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Why is natural language processing (NLP) important?
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What are the potential uses for NLP in the biomedical domain?
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What forms of knowledge are used in NLP?
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What are the principal techniques of NLP?
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What are the challenges for NLP in the clinical domain?
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What are the challenges for NLP in the biological domain?
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Friedman, C., Johnson, S.B. (2006). Natural Language and Text Processing in Biomedicine. In: Shortliffe, E.H., Cimino, J.J. (eds) Biomedical Informatics. Health Informatics. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/0-387-36278-9_8
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