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  1. Yunus Emre Health Services Vocational School
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Last Updated: 21/08/2026

Code - Course Title Course Type Laboratory + Practice ECTS
DSS210 - Natural Language Processing and Clinical Text Mining IV. SEMESTER 2 +2 4.0
Language of Instruction Türkçe
Course Type Area Elective Courses
Course Instructor(s) ÖĞR. GÖR. DR. ÜMİT YILMAZ YILDIZ
Mode of Delivery Face to Face
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Prerequisites There are no prerequisites and co-requisites for this class
Courses Recomended None
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Weeks Learning Outcomes Topics Teaching Methods
Week - 1 Introduction to Natural Language Processing (NLP): Basic Concepts and Application Areas
Week - 2 Text Preprocessing Techniques: Tokenization, Stemming, and Stop-Word Removal
Week - 3 Structure of Clinical Text and Characteristics of Free-Text Data
Week - 4 Extracting Clinical Concepts through Named Entity Recognition (NER)
Week - 5 Extracting Diagnosis, Medication, and Symptom Information from Clinical Text
Week - 6 Text Classification and Sentiment Analysis Methods
Week - 7 Rule-Based and Statistical Approaches in Clinical Text Mining
Week - 8 Midterm Exam
Week - 9 Applying Deep Learning-Based Language Models to Clinical Text
Week - 10 Converting Free Text in Electronic Health Records into Structured Data
Week - 11 Data Privacy and Ethical Issues in NLP Applications
Week - 12 Use of NLP in Clinical Decision Support Systems
Week - 13 Clinical Text Mining Studies with Current Tools and Applied Examples
Week - 14 Final Exam

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