ELI5: Explain Like I'm 5

Medical intelligence and language engineering lab

Alright kiddo, do you know what doctors do when you are sick? They try to figure out what’s wrong with you and how to make you better!

But sometimes it can be tricky for the doctors to understand everything about your health. They might have a lot of information to look at, like your medical history, test results, and notes from your previous appointments.

That’s where the Medical Intelligence and Language Engineering Lab comes in! It’s a special place where really smart people work on making it easier for doctors to understand all of that information by using technology.

Language engineering is like teaching computers to understand human language, just like how you learn to understand what mommy and daddy are saying to you. The people at the lab try to make it so that computers can understand medical language and help doctors figure out what’s going on with you.

They use big fancy words like “artificial intelligence” and “natural language processing”, but we don’t need to worry about those. Just know that they’re working really hard to make it easier for doctors to help you feel better!