A Systematic Review of Natural Language Processing for Knowledge Management in Healthcare

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Driven by the visions of Data Science, recent years have seen a paradigm shift in Natural Language Processing (NLP).

• NLP has set the milestone in text processing and proved to be the preferred choice for researchers in the healthcare domain.
• The objective of this paper is to identify the potential of NLP, especially, how NLP is used to support the knowledge management process in the healthcare domain, making data a critical and trusted component in improving the health outcomes.
• This paper provides a comprehensive survey of the state-of-the-art NLP research with a particular focus on how knowledge is created, captured, shared, and applied in the healthcare domain.