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

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.

Methods

We explore the literature on clinical and biomedical NLP from the years 2020-2022, focusing on the challenges of multilinguality and LoE. We query online databases and manually select relevant publications. We also use recent NLP review papers to identify the possible information lacunae.

Results

Our work confirms the recent trend towards the use of transformer-based language models for a variety of NLP tasks in medical domains. In addition, there has been an increase in the a

SUBMITTER: Shaitarova A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10751112 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature