 Natural Language Processing
"Natural Language Processing" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure,
which enables searching at various levels of specificity.
Computer processing of a language with rules that reflect and describe current usage rather than prescribed usage.
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D009323
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| MeSH Number(s) |
L01.224.050.375.580
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| Concept/Terms |
Natural Language Processing- Natural Language Processing
- Language Processing, Natural
- Language Processings, Natural
- Natural Language Processings
- Processing, Natural Language
- Processings, Natural Language
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| 2005 | 1 | 0 | 1 | | 2006 | 0 | 2 | 2 | | 2007 | 0 | 2 | 2 | | 2008 | 3 | 1 | 4 | | 2009 | 2 | 0 | 2 | | 2010 | 0 | 3 | 3 | | 2012 | 3 | 0 | 3 | | 2013 | 2 | 0 | 2 | | 2014 | 3 | 1 | 4 | | 2015 | 3 | 2 | 5 | | 2016 | 3 | 2 | 5 | | 2017 | 4 | 0 | 4 | | 2018 | 5 | 1 | 6 | | 2019 | 2 | 1 | 3 | | 2020 | 7 | 1 | 8 | | 2021 | 3 | 2 | 5 | | 2022 | 3 | 4 | 7 | | 2023 | 3 | 2 | 5 | | 2024 | 6 | 4 | 10 | | 2025 | 7 | 0 | 7 | | 2026 | 3 | 2 | 5 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Natural Language Processing" by people in Profiles.
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Trujeque J, Simonetti JA, Ortiz I, Ingraham NE, Mesfin N, Yeung J, Zhang R, Brenner LA, Dudley RA. Natural Language Processing Identification of Nonprescribed Fentanyl Use in Electronic Health Records: Algorithm Development and Validation Study. J Med Internet Res. 2026 Sep 09; 28:e97485.
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Espinosa JM, Burdekin K, Auman JO, Tyndall B, Cnota JF, Hartley SL, Fidler DJ, Redline S, Thessen A, Catellier D, Carroll RJ, Rosser T, Lo P, Beaumont D, Natarajan K, Heath A, Fabbri D, Dunford MC, Cheng A, Schwartz B, Li H. Common data element (CDE) and AI-Enabled approaches for clinical data Management: Workshop proceedings from the NIH INCLUDE Project. J Biomed Inform. 2026 Oct; 182:105090.
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Iveson MH, Mukherjee M, Davidson EM, Zhang H, Sherlock L, Ball EL, Mair G, Hosking A, Whalley H, Poon MTC, Wardlaw JM, Kent DM, Tobin R, Grover C, Alex B, Whiteley W. Clinically reported covert cerebrovascular disease and risk of neurological disease: a whole-population cohort of 367 988 people using natural language processing. J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry. 2026 Jun 12; 97(7):630-638.
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Braun HM, Still L, Elrick E, Tillman AR, Bacon E, Loh R, Bender B, Mills J, Shlay JC. Words matter: A campaign to reduce stigmatizing substance use language at an urban health system. J Subst Use Addict Treat. 2026 Sep; 188:210000.
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Sivarajkumar S, Edupuganti S, Lazris D, Bhattacharya M, Davis M, Dressman D, Thomas R, Hu Y, Ren Y, Xu H, Yang P, Huang Y, Wang Y. Extraction of Treatments and Responses From Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer Clinical Notes Using Natural Language Processing. JCO Clin Cancer Inform. 2026 01; 10:e2500138.
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Eyre H, Prince DK, Abrahamson S, Blankenhorn RK, Carey EP, Laundry RJ, Showalter W, Todd-Stenberg J, O'Hare AM, Butler CR. Using Natural Language Processing to Characterize Early Steps in the Kidney Transplant Evaluation Process Documented in the National Veterans Affairs Electronic Health Record. Clin Transplant. 2026 Jan; 40(1):e70441.
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Cave S, Peterson KS, Plomondon ME, Waldo SW. Utilizing large language models and natural language processing to classify ischemia status from cardiac stress tests in a large multicenter healthcare system. BMC Res Notes. 2025 Dec 03; 19(1):10.
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Grim S, Fuhlbrigge A, Thomas JF, Kessler R. Natural language processing to describe primary care requests for eConsult specialty care: A simple and practical application. Health Informatics J. 2025 Apr-Jun; 31(2):14604582251345319.
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Bai E, Luo X, Zhang Z, Adelgais K, Ali H, Finkelstein J, Kutzin J. Assessment and Integration of Large Language Models for Automated Electronic Health Record Documentation in Emergency Medical Services. J Med Syst. 2025 May 17; 49(1):65.
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Martin D, Lyons J, Powers JD, Daddato AE, Boxer RS, Bayliss E, Portz JD. Systematic Identification of Caregivers of Patients Living With Dementia in the Electronic Health Record: Known Contacts and Natural Language Processing Cohort Study. J Med Internet Res. 2025 May 05; 27:e63654.
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