Overcoming barriers to NLP for clinical text: the role of shared tasks and the need for additional creative solutions

Chapman, Wendy W; Nadkarni, Prakash M; Hirschman, Lynette; D'Avolio, Leonard W; Savova, Guergana K; Uzuner, Ozlem

doi:10.1136/amiajnl-2011-000465

Overcoming barriers to NLP for clinical text: the role of shared tasks and the need for additional creative solutions

This issue of JAMIA focuses on natural language processing (NLP) techniques for clinical-text information extraction. Several articles are offshoots of the yearly ‘Informatics for Integrating Biology and the Bedside’ (i2b2) (http://www.i2b2.org) NLP shared-task challenge, introduced by Uzuner et …