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Editorial
. 2011 Sep-Oct;18(5):540-3.
doi: 10.1136/amiajnl-2011-000465.

Overcoming barriers to NLP for clinical text: the role of shared tasks and the need for additional creative solutions

Wendy W Chapman, Prakash M Nadkarni, Lynette Hirschman, Leonard W D'Avolio, Guergana K Savova, Ozlem Uzuner
Editorial

Overcoming barriers to NLP for clinical text: the role of shared tasks and the need for additional creative solutions

Wendy W Chapman et al. J Am Med Inform Assoc. 2011 Sep-Oct.
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