Natural Language Processing: Podcast with Wired Informatics

https://healthbb.files.wordpress.com/2017/08/hbdew0061-david-e-williams-interviews-murali-minnah-from-wired-informatics.mp3 Murali Minnah, co-founder and chief strategy officer of Wired Informatics Natural language processing (NLP) is a fascinating segment of Artificial Intelligence that draws on a variety of emerging scientific fields.   Wired Informatics is developing and commercializing NLP within the healthcare industry. I met co-founder and chief strategy officer, Murali Minnah last year and we have been exploring  applications for NLP within Health Business Group’s client base. I admire the company and its approach, so asked Murali to share his insights in this podcast: (0:11) You are involved with a lot of the hot buzzwords: big data, natural language processing, and machine learning. What do those words actually mean to you? (4:59) Are there aspects of healthcare that lend themselves well to natural language processing? (7:18) How well does NLP actually work today? What’s the trajectory for its development? (8:42) How do you work with a technology that is good and improving but not perfect? In healthcare it seems we’d be concerned about something that isn’t perfectly accurate. (10:59) If you do get to 100 percent accuracy, how do you contend with problems in the underlying data? (12:50) You mentioned operational use cases as the first places to start. What are some of the most compelling use cases today and down the road? (15:35) Where is y...
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