2022
A comparative study of pre-trained language models for named entity recognition in clinical trial eligibility criteria from multiple corpora
Li J, Wei Q, Ghiasvand O, Chen M, Lobanov V, Weng C, Xu H. A comparative study of pre-trained language models for named entity recognition in clinical trial eligibility criteria from multiple corpora. BMC Medical Informatics And Decision Making 2022, 22: 235. PMID: 36068551, PMCID: PMC9450226, DOI: 10.1186/s12911-022-01967-7.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsPre-trained language modelsNER taskUnstructured textEntity recognitionLanguage modelNatural language processing techniquesClinical trial eligibility criteriaLanguage processing techniquesData augmentation resultsData augmentation approachDomain-specific corpusBetter performanceTransformer modelCross-validation showMultiple data sourcesEligibility criteria textBiomedical domainEmbedding modelsNER performanceAugmentation approachContextual embeddingsMeaningful informationEvaluation resultsSuch documentsProcessing techniques
2020
Relation Extraction from Clinical Narratives Using Pre-trained Language Models.
Wei Q, Ji Z, Si Y, Du J, Wang J, Tiryaki F, Wu S, Tao C, Roberts K, Xu H. Relation Extraction from Clinical Narratives Using Pre-trained Language Models. AMIA Annual Symposium Proceedings 2020, 2019: 1236-1245. PMID: 32308921, PMCID: PMC7153059.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsPre-trained language modelsNatural language processingLanguage modelRE tasksNLP tasksClinical narrativesRecent deep learning methodsDeep learning methodsClinical NLP tasksRelation extraction taskTraditional word embeddingsTraditional machineExtraction taskArt performanceRelation extractionBERT modelLanguage processingLearning methodsWord embeddingsShared TaskPrevious stateBiomedical literatureDifferent implementationsTaskOpen domain