Biomedical/Clinical NLP

Recent years have seen a rapid growth in the use of biomedical documents and narrative clinical records for applications outside of direct patient care. Accordingly, recent years have also seen an increase in the development of NLP technologies for concept and relation extraction, summarization, and question answering on these data. This tutorial will present an overview of the biomedical and clinical NLP data, tools, and methods with the intent of providing the researchers with a jump-start into these domains. We will focus on the demand for NLP in biomedical and clinical domains, the potential for impact, and the required NLP tasks. We will introduce this information in the following categories: