Igor Kruglyak, senior advisor at the global IT service provider Avenga and Michael DePalma, founder and president of digital specialists Pensare, LLC, examine the use of natural language processing (NLP) for investigator recruitment acceleration.
NLP
NLP is one of the fastest adopted business technologies in the world, only two years after Google first released its pre-trained Bidirectional Encoder Representations from Transformers (BERT). BERT provides a state-of-the-art output on 11 NLP tasks, and has a deeper sense of language context than any other language model developed before. In the last three years, NLP has made more progress than any other subfield of AI and estimates predict that the worldwide NLP market size will reach $43 billion by 2025, compared to $11 billion in 2019.
Simply put, NLP enables computers to analyse written or spoken human language, to extract its meaning and to obtain insights from these data. The pharmaceutical industry has started utilising the technology, for example, to analyse medical data, to ensure pharmacovigilance and to enhance medical care with health assistants.