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[[Natural language processing (NLP)]] is an automated technique that converts narrative documents into a coded form that is appropriate for computer-based analysis. Capabilities that NLP provides in the context of healthcare include parsing a sentence into its component structures, understanding the medical vocabulary and clinical terms used, disambiguating the context in order to interpret the clinical terms correctly within the broader context of the documentation, and representing the processed information for further use.