Classifying Long Clinical Documents with Pre-trained Transformers

Autor: Su, Xin, Miller, Timothy, Ding, Xiyu, Afshar, Majid, Dligach, Dmitriy
Rok vydání: 2021
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DOI: 10.48550/arxiv.2105.06752
Popis: Automatic phenotyping is a task of identifying cohorts of patients that match a predefined set of criteria. Phenotyping typically involves classifying long clinical documents that contain thousands of tokens. At the same time, recent state-of-art transformer-based pre-trained language models limit the input to a few hundred tokens (e.g. 512 tokens for BERT). We evaluate several strategies for incorporating pre-trained sentence encoders into document-level representations of clinical text, and find that hierarchical transformers without pre-training are competitive with task pre-trained models.
Databáze: OpenAIRE