TY - GEN
T1 - Development of pre-trained language models for clinical NLP in Spanish
AU - Aracena, Claudio
AU - Dunstan, Jocelyn
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2023 Association for Computational Linguistics.
PY - 2023
Y1 - 2023
N2 - Clinical natural language processing aims to tackle language and prediction tasks using text from medical practice, such as clinical notes, prescriptions, and discharge summaries. Several approaches have been tried to deal with these tasks. Since 2017, pre-trained language models (PLMs) have achieved state-of-the-art performance in many tasks. However, most works have been developed in English. This PhD research proposal addresses the development of PLMs for clinical NLP in Spanish. To carry out this study, we will build a clinical corpus big enough to implement a functional PLM. We will test several PLM architectures and evaluate them with language and prediction tasks. The novelty of this work lies in the use of only clinical text, while previous clinical PLMs have used a mix of general, biomedical, and clinical text.
AB - Clinical natural language processing aims to tackle language and prediction tasks using text from medical practice, such as clinical notes, prescriptions, and discharge summaries. Several approaches have been tried to deal with these tasks. Since 2017, pre-trained language models (PLMs) have achieved state-of-the-art performance in many tasks. However, most works have been developed in English. This PhD research proposal addresses the development of PLMs for clinical NLP in Spanish. To carry out this study, we will build a clinical corpus big enough to implement a functional PLM. We will test several PLM architectures and evaluate them with language and prediction tasks. The novelty of this work lies in the use of only clinical text, while previous clinical PLMs have used a mix of general, biomedical, and clinical text.
UR - https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/85159858464
U2 - 10.18653/v1/2023.eacl-srw.5
DO - 10.18653/v1/2023.eacl-srw.5
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85159858464
T3 - EACL 2023 - 17th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics, Proceedings of the Student Research Workshop
SP - 52
EP - 60
BT - EACL 2023 - 17th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics, Proceedings of the Student Research Workshop
PB - Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)
T2 - 17th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics, EACL 2023: Student Research Workshop, SRW 2023
Y2 - 2 May 2023 through 4 May 2023
ER -