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A Multilabel Approach to Portuguese Clinical Named Entity Recognition

Published inJournal of Health Informatics, vol. 12, no. Número Especial, XVII Congresso Brasileiro de Informática em Saúde (CBIS 2020),, p. 366-372
Publication date2020-12
Abstract

Objectives: Clinical Named Entity Recognition is a critical Natural Language Processing task, as it could support biomedical research and healthcare systems. While most extracted clinical entities are based on single-label concepts, it is very common in the clinical domain entities with more than one semantic category simultaneously. This work proposes BERT-based models to support multilabel clinical named entity recognition in the Portuguese language. Methods: For the experiment, we used the Label Powerset method applied to the multilabel corpus SemClinBr. Results: We compare our results with a Conditional Random Fields baseline, reaching +2.1 in precision, +11.2 in recall, and +7.4 in F1 with a clinical-biomedical BERT model (BioBERTpt). Conclusion: We achieved higher results for both exact and partial metrics, contributing to the multilabel semantic processing of clinical narratives in Portuguese.

Keywords
  • Clinical Named Entity Recognition
  • Label Powerset
  • BERT
Affiliation entities Not a UNIGE publication
Citation (ISO format)
DE SOUZA, João Vitor Andrioli et al. A Multilabel Approach to Portuguese Clinical Named Entity Recognition. In: Journal of Health Informatics, 2020, vol. 12, p. 366–372.
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Journal ISSN2175-4411
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