Natural Language Processing for Biosurveillance
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چکیده
Data useful for biosurveillance are often only available in a free-text format that can be easily read and understood by a human but not by a computer. Natural language processing (NLP) refers to automated methods for converting free-text data into computer-understandable format (Allen, 1995). This conversion is necessary so that information stored in free-text format can contribute to detection and characterization of outbreaks.
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