2024
Ascle—A Python Natural Language Processing Toolkit for Medical Text Generation: Development and Evaluation Study
Yang R, Zeng Q, You K, Qiao Y, Huang L, Hsieh C, Rosand B, Goldwasser J, Dave A, Keenan T, Ke Y, Hong C, Liu N, Chew E, Radev D, Lu Z, Xu H, Chen Q, Li I. Ascle—A Python Natural Language Processing Toolkit for Medical Text Generation: Development and Evaluation Study. Journal Of Medical Internet Research 2024, 26: e60601. PMID: 39361955, PMCID: PMC11487205, DOI: 10.2196/60601.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsNatural language processingNatural language processing toolkitQuestion-answering taskLanguage modelText generationText processingDomain-specific language modelsNatural language processing functionsMinimal programming expertiseText generation tasksMedical knowledge graphMachine translation tasksROUGE-L scoreDomain-specific challengesAll-in-one solutionROUGE-LText summarizationBLEU scoreKnowledge graphMachine translationUnstructured textQuestion-answeringHugging FaceProcessing toolkitLanguage processing
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