Natural Language Processing in Biomedicine

This textbook covers broad topics within the application of natural language processing (NLP) in biomedicine, and provides in-depth review of the NLP solutions that reveal information embedded in biomedical text. The need for biomedical NLP research and development has grown rapidly in the past two decades as an important field in cognitive informatics.  Natural Language Processing in Biomedicine: A Practical Guide  introduces the history of the biomedical NLP field and takes the reade