Clinical Natural Language Processing

This course teaches you the fundamentals of clinical natural language processing (NLP). In this course you will learn the basic linguistic principals underlying NLP, as well as how to write regular expressions and handle text data in R. You will also learn practical techniques for text processing to be able to extract information from clinical notes. Finally, you will have a chance to put your skills to the test with a real-world practical application where you develop text processing algorithm

• Recognize complexity differences in text mining and NLP
• Write basic regular expressions for common clinical text
• Assess and select note sections for analytic questions
• Write R code to search text windows for keywords and phrases