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A Dataset for Evaluating Contextualized Representation of Biomedical Concepts in Language Models

Published inScientific data, vol. 11, no. 1, 455
Publication date2024-05-04
First online date2024-05-04
Abstract

Due to the complexity of the biomedical domain, the ability to capture semantically meaningful representations of terms in context is a long-standing challenge. Despite important progress in the past years, no evaluation benchmark has been developed to evaluate how well language models represent biomedical concepts according to their corresponding context. Inspired by the Word-in-Context (WiC) benchmark, in which word sense disambiguation is reformulated as a binary classification task, we propose a novel dataset, BioWiC, to evaluate the ability of language models to encode biomedical terms in context. BioWiC comprises 20'156 instances, covering over 7'400 unique biomedical terms, making it the largest WiC dataset in the biomedical domain. We evaluate BioWiC both intrinsically and extrinsically and show that it could be used as a reliable benchmark for evaluating context-dependent embeddings in biomedical corpora. In addition, we conduct several experiments using a variety of discriminative and generative large language models to establish robust baselines that can serve as a foundation for future research.

Keywords
  • NLP
  • Biomedical NLP
  • LLM
  • Concept representation
  • Language
  • Natural Language Processing
  • Semantics
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ROUHIZADEH, Hossein et al. A Dataset for Evaluating Contextualized Representation of Biomedical Concepts in Language Models. In: Scientific data, 2024, vol. 11, n° 1, p. 455. doi: 10.1038/s41597-024-03317-w
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Additional URL for this publicationhttps://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/38704422/
Journal ISSN2052-4463
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