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ArticleProceedings of the conference. Association for Computational Linguistics. Meeting2023

Improving the Transferability of Clinical Note Section Classification Models with BERT and Large Language Model Ensembles.

Weipeng Zhou, Dmitriy Dligach, Majid Afshar, Yanjun Gao, Timothy A Miller

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Article in Proceedings of the conference. Association for Computational Linguistics. Meeting, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.

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Weipeng ZhouDepartment of Biomedical, Informatics and Medical Education, School of Medicine, University of Washington.
Dmitriy DligachDepartment of Computer Science, Loyola University Chicago.
Majid AfsharDepartment of Medicine, School of Medicine and Public Health, University of Wisconsin.
Yanjun GaoDepartment of Medicine, School of Medicine and Public Health, University of Wisconsin.
Timothy A MillerComputational Health Informatics Program, Boston Children's Hospital, Harvard Medical School.

Funding

Data Driven Strategies for Substance Misuse Identification in Hospitalized PatientsR01DA051464 · NIDA · UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN-MADISON · PI Majid Afshar · 2020 to 2026
$4.5M
Learning Universal Patient Representations with Hierarchical TransformersR01LM012973 · NLM · BOSTON CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL · PI Timothy A Miller · 2019 to 2026
$3.5M
Transfer Learning for Digital Curation of the EMR Clinical NarrativeR01LM013486 · NLM · BOSTON CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL · PI SAVOVA, GUERGANA K. · 2021 to 2024
$1.5M
Automated domain adaptation for clinical natural language processingR01LM012918 · NLM · BOSTON CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL · PI MILLER, TIMOTHY A · 2018 to 2020
$1.2M
NIDA NIH HHS R01 DA051464NLM NIH HHS R01 LM012918NLM NIH HHS R01 LM012973NLM NIH HHS R01 LM013486
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Abstract

Text in electronic health records is organized into sections, and classifying those sections into section categories is useful for downstream tasks. In this work, we attempt to improve the transferability of section classification models by combining the dataset-specific knowledge in supervised learning models with the world knowledge inside large language models (LLMs). Surprisingly, we find that zero-shot LLMs out-perform supervised BERT-based models applied to out-of-domain data. We also find that their strengths are synergistic, so that a simple ensemble technique leads to additional performance gains.

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