Introduction

摘要

The past year has been an exciting and productive time for biomedical natural language processing. A search for natural language processing or text mining in PubMed?/MEDLINE? limited to 2015 and 2016 returns over 800 results. The number of corpora available in the domain continues to increase, and the past year has seen two hackathons devoted to biomedical corpora, with another two planned for this coming year. A variety of shared tasks have led to increases in the shared knowledge of the community, with more to come.