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SUMMARY:Natural Language Processing for Health - Dr Nigel Collier: Lecture
 r in Computational Linguistics\, EPSRC Experienced Research Fellow\, Fello
 w of the Alan Turing Institute\, Co-Director of the Language Technology La
 b
DTSTART:20200211T180000Z
DTEND:20200211T193000Z
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CONTACT:Krishna Amin
DESCRIPTION:Natural Language Processing (NLP) - a branch of Artificial Int
 elligence (AI) - focuses on the automated analysis and understanding of hu
 man language by machines. NLP in health promises to support knowledge disc
 overy about drugs\, aid clinical diagnosis and enhance early detection of 
 disease outbreaks. However key problems remain to be solved.  In this talk
 \, Dr Collier will review current technologies before going on to provide 
 insights into some of the linguistic and technical issues that make unders
 tanding the language of health so challenging for AI. He will focus in par
 ticular on the Voice of the Patient - the often colloquial language that p
 atients use to describe their own conditions in social media and forums.
LOCATION:Pfizer Lecture Theatre\, Department of Chemistry\, Lensfield Road
 \, Cambridge
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