[Tutor] NLP

[Mats Wichmann]

On 8/26/19 9:46 AM, Olsen, Avalow Y wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I am new to Python but need to make a proof of concept to use Python to build a predictive model for cancer diagnosis on our lab data with Natural Language Processing (NLTK).
> 
> Has anyone done any cancer work with NLP?  Given my situation,  what is the best way to get started?

And your lab data is in the form of human language narrative
(physician's notes, etc)?  If so, nltk will be useful for breaking down
the data into parts you can work with, but there's an awfully long way
to go from there to diagnosis...

You probably want to get a bit more familiar with Python before tackling
this, just as an opinion.

There are people who have worked on this field, I'd be somewhat
surprised if many (any?) of them are listening here. A little internet
searching turns up this link:

https://towardsdatascience.com/introduction-to-clinical-natural-language-processing-predicting-hospital-readmission-with-1736d52bc709