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Table 1 Number of publications returned by a PubMed search for “Natural Language Processing AND *language* [tiab]” where *language* is instantiated with a specific language name, on January 13, 2017 along with references cited in this review for each language. The last row (bolded) presents overall information for all languages studied in this review

From: Clinical Natural Language Processing in languages other than English: opportunities and challenges

Language (ISO 639-1 language code)

PubMed Count

Cited in this review

French (FR)

111

[31, 77]*[71, 160, 161]*[158]*[65]*[78]*[66, 79, 94]

  

[156]* [50, 67, 89, 109, 120]* [54]* [154]* [159]*

  

[140] [138]* [7, 56, 59, 60, 90, 116, 117] [163]*

  

[112] [70]* [126, 152, 153] [55]*

German (DE)

69

[31]*[115] [72]*[156]* [154]*[141] [109]*[118] [138]*

  

[84] [163]* [27, 53, 88] [70]* [80, 124] [36, 106]

Chinese (ZH)

54

[155]* [68, 73, 96] [154]* [42, 43, 69, 99] [103, 122]

Spanish (ES)

39

[161]*[158]*[155]*[156]*[54]*[154]*[138]

  

*[30, 98, 107, 119] [70]*[58] [34, 108], [55, 157]*

Japanese (JA)

30

[158]*[33, 37] [154]* [49, 127, 149, 151],

Dutch (DU)

20

[114] [139] [138]*[110] [70]*

Swedish (SV)

15

[57, 104] [74]*[92] [109]* [48, 61, 105]

  

[35, 93, 113, 123]

Portuguese (PT)

14

[28, 83], [55]*

Greek (EL)

14

[52]

Italian (IT)

12

[46, 47, 97]

Korean (KO)

11

[155]*[91]

Arabic (AR)

9

[158]*[162]

Finnish (FI)

9

[38, 40] [74]*[32, 85, 121]

Czech (CS), Russian (RU)

7

[155]*, [163]*

Polish (PL)

6

[29, 82], [156]*

Hebrew (HE)

5

[41, 44]

Danish (DA)

4

[86, 87] [45]

Turkish (TR)

3

[156]*

Bulgarian (BG)

2

[62, 64, 95, 100102]

Basque (EU)

1

[51]

Georgian (KA)

1

[125]

Hungarian (HU)

0

[156]*

Overall

435

114

  1. Note that some included articles are not indexed in MEDLINE but in other publication venues such as ACL. A star indicates work that addresses several languages