title: Recent advances in natural language processing for biomedical applications.
abstract: We survey a set a recent advances in natural language processing applied to biomedical applications, which were presented in Geneva, Switzerland, in 2004 at an international workshop. While text mining applied to molecular biology and biomedical literature can report several interesting achievements, we observe that studies applied to clinical contents are still rare. In general, we argue that clinical corpora, including electronic patient records, must be made available to fill the gap between bioinformatics and medical informatics.
authors.forename: Nigel
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Collier
authors.forename: Adeline
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Nazarenko
authors.forename: Robert
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Baud
authors.forename: Patrick
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Ruch
mesh_terms: D000043:Abstracting and Indexing / Q000639:trends*; D001185:Artificial Intelligence; D019295:Computational Biology / Q000639:trends*; D005544:Forecasting; D016247:Information Storage and Retrieval / Q000639:trends*; D008490:Medical Informatics / Q000639:trends*; D009323:Natural Language Processing; D010506:Periodicals as Topic