Improving capture of violence events and experiences using natural language processing

Experiences and acts of violence are clearly important issues in mental health but are not well captured in the structured fields of electronic records; instead, they are described in text which makes it difficult to flag these issues for research using CRIS. In 2021 ‘natural language processing’ applications were successfully developed to capture some instances of violence – both experiences and acts. The proposed work will improve on these to enhance research possibilities.