Accuracy in Medical NLP: It’s Never Just a Single Number by emtelligent  ·  20 minutes

Five Important Criteria for Assessing the Quality and Performance of Medical Language Understanding

What is Medical Natural Language Processing (NLP)?

Natural Language Processing (NLP) is a branch of artificial intelligence (AI) that enables machine understanding of human language. In recent years, NLP has become part of consumer products and performs with a sometimes-surprising degree of accuracy. Virtual assistants like Apple’s Siri, Google Assistant and Amazon’s Alexa use NLP to understand spoken questions like “what’s the weather like today?” They are able to understand the meaning of the question, and then use data from online sources to reply with a meaningful response.