Biomedical Natural Language Processing

The book begins with a declaration that “the intended audience of the book is natural language processing specialists who want to move into the biomedical domain.” It is indeed a great introductory textbook to the field of biomedical natural language processing (NLP), particularly for NLP specialists. Browsing the contents, many NLP specialists will find the titles of chapters familiar: “Named Entity Recognition,” “Relation Extraction,” and so on. Those familiar topics are reformulated in the context of biomedical informatics, with rich biomedical examples and a good amount of explanation.