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Natural Language Processing Hilarity

Discussion in 'Entertainment and Technology' started by Pret Allez, Mar 18, 2013.

  1. Pret Allez

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    So I know this is something like two and a half years old now and probably much improved upon by research at IBM or elsewhere, but I do think it says a lot about how far we've come--and how idiosyncratic English can be--that we can have stuff like this:

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    Being in clinical research, I've been quite interested in NLP as a potential application in the detection of safety signals among all those handwritten medical charts (billions!) We are years away from getting a handle on all that data!