Practitioners of natural language processing (NLP) use methods from math, science, engineering and linguistics to teach computers to understand human language. Because much biomedical information is stored as text, there are many possible applications of NLP in health sciences. This course offers an introduction to NLP for the health sciences. Students will gain a conceptual and hands-on introduction to fundamental tools, concepts and problems from NLP by exploring applications in healthcare, population health and biomedicine. Recommended prerequisite: Python 3.
