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.
| Descriptor ID |
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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| Year | Major Topic | Minor Topic | Total |
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| 2003 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2006 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2010 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2012 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2013 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2014 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2015 | 2 | 2 | 4 |
| 2016 | 4 | 0 | 4 |
| 2017 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 2018 | 1 | 4 | 5 |
| 2019 | 2 | 1 | 3 |
| 2020 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 2021 | 0 | 3 | 3 |
| 2022 | 0 | 3 | 3 |
| 2023 | 2 | 1 | 3 |
| 2024 | 2 | 1 | 3 |
| 2025 | 5 | 2 | 7 |
| 2026 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Natural Language Processing" by people in Profiles.
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Natural language processing to enhance rheumatoid arthritis care in clinical studies: a scoping review of applications, data, approaches, challenges and future directions. Rheumatol Int. 2026 Jun 22; 46(7).
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SPELL: A scalable NLP method using regular expressions and large language models for clinical information extraction. Comput Methods Programs Biomed. 2026 Oct; 285:109517.
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Latent obstacles in older adults' digital health participation: a community-based hybrid cluster analysis with natural language processing. BMC Public Health. 2025 Dec 18; 26(1):285.
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Turning Patients' Open-Ended Narratives of Chronic Pain Into Quantitative Measures: Natural Language Processing Study. JMIR Hum Factors. 2025 Nov 25; 12:e80269.
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Understanding Cancer Survivorship Care Needs Using Amazon Reviews: Content Analysis, Algorithm Development, and Validation Study. JMIR Cancer. 2025 Sep 23; 11:e71102.
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Performance and improvement strategies for adapting generative large language models for electronic health record applications: A systematic review. Int J Med Inform. 2026 Jan; 205:106091.
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Development and validation of venous thromboembolism-bidirectional encoder representations from transformers (VTE-BERT) natural language processing model. J Thromb Haemost. 2026 07; 24(7):2522-2531.
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Extracting antibiotic susceptibility from free-text microbiology reports using natural language processing. Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol. 2025 Sep; 46(9):941-943.
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Utilizing natural language processing to improve abdominal aortic aneurysm surveillance. J Vasc Surg. 2025 09; 82(3):827-832.
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Crafting effective health appeals: Language and source credibility in amplifying tobacco control messages on social media. Health Mark Q. 2025 Jul-Sep; 42(3):257-281.