Basic classes and methods for Natural Language Processing.

Stanford 'CoreNLP' annotation client.
  Stanford 'CoreNLP' <https://stanfordnlp.github.io/CoreNLP/index.html> integrates all 
  NLP tools from the Stanford Natural Language Processing Group, 
  including a part-of-speech (POS) tagger, a named entity recognizer (NER), 
  a parser, and a coreference resolution system, and provides model files 
  for the analysis of English. More information can be found in the README.

Provides efficient methods to compute co-occurrence matrices, pointwise mutual information (PMI) and singular value decomposition (SVD). In the biomedical and clinical settings, one challenge is the huge size of databases, e.g. when analyzing data of millions of patients over tens of years. To address this, this package provides functions to efficiently compute monthly co-occurrence matrices, which is the computational bottleneck of the analysis, by using the 'RcppAlgos' package and sparse matrices. Furthermore, the functions can be called on 'SQL' databases, enabling the computation of co-occurrence matrices of tens of gigabytes of data, representing millions of patients over tens of years. Partly based on Hong C. (2021) <doi:10.1038/s41746-021-00519-z>.

Methods for obtaining improved estimates of non-linear cross-validated risks are obtained using targeted minimum loss-based estimation, estimating equations, and one-step estimation (Benkeser, Petersen, van der Laan (2019), <doi:10.1080/01621459.2019.1668794>). Cross-validated area under the receiver operating characteristics curve (LeDell, Petersen, van der Laan (2015), <doi:10.1214/15-EJS1035>) and other metrics are included.

Provides computational tools for nonlinear longitudinal models, in particular the intrinsically nonlinear models, in four scenarios: (1) univariate longitudinal processes with growth factors, with or without covariates including time-invariant covariates (TICs) and time-varying covariates (TVCs); (2) multivariate longitudinal processes that facilitate the assessment of correlation or causation between multiple longitudinal variables; (3) multiple-group models for scenarios (1) and (2) to evaluate differences among manifested groups, and (4) longitudinal mixture models for scenarios (1) and (2), with an assumption that trajectories are from multiple latent classes. The methods implemented are introduced in Jin Liu (2023) <arXiv:2302.03237v2>.