Natural language processing can be used for automated extraction of social work interventions from electronic health records, thereby supporting social work staffing and resource allocation decisions.

Learn how Generative AI and natural language queries offer conversational and quick access to proprietary knowledge without additional learning.

A network analysis of 57,000 Reddit comments explores how people discuss pain online, showing that "pain" is a central term in symptom conversations.

Understanding others’ speech enables communication and is key in social interaction. It often seems to happen effortlessly, however, on a cognitive level, language processing is a complex skill ...

Information on the nonmedical factors that influence health outcomes, known as social determinants of health, is often collected at medical appointments. But this information is frequently recorded as ...

It wasn’t too long ago that talking to a computer and having it not only understand, but speak back, was confined to the realm of science fiction, like that of the shipboard computers of Star Trek.

Natural language processing (NLP) denotes the use of artificial intelligence (AI) to manipulate written or spoken languages. Like the air we breathe, NLP is so pervasive today that we hardly notice it ...

Prediction has been touted as a “canonical cortical computation” [i], and essential for basic linguistic processes [ii]. Naturally, the efficiency with which the brain can implement its various forms ...

Natalie Gross is a freelance journalist and podcast producer based in the Washington, D.C., area. She has a master’s degree in journalism from Georgetown University. It’s been a decade since IBM’s ...

NLP is being touted as the hottest area of artificial intelligence and a new generation of transformer language models are unlocking new NLP use-cases. Natural language processing is the hottest area ...