Biomedical natural language processing in 2017: The view from computational linguistics

摘要

According to the Association for Computational Linguistics guidelines on special interest groups (SIGs), The function of a SIG is to encourage interest and activity in specific areas within the ACL's field[1]. Is the SIGBioMed special interest group "within the ACL's field"? The titles of this year's papers suggest that it is, in that the current interest in deep learning in its many and varied manifestations is mirrored in those titles. Do those papers cover a specific area? They do, and in doing so, they demonstrate one of the great satisfactions of working in biomedical natural language processing.