HealthE: Classifying Entities in Online Textual Health Advice

J Gatto, P Seegmiller, G Johnston… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2022 - arxiv.org
arXiv preprint arXiv:2210.03246, 2022arxiv.org
The processing of entities in natural language is essential to many medical NLP systems.
Unfortunately, existing datasets vastly under-represent the entities required to model public
health relevant texts such as health advice often found on sites like WebMD. People rely on
such information for personal health management and clinically relevant decision making. In
this work, we release a new annotated dataset, HealthE, consisting of 6,756 health advice.
HealthE has a more granular label space compared to existing medical NER corpora and …
The processing of entities in natural language is essential to many medical NLP systems. Unfortunately, existing datasets vastly under-represent the entities required to model public health relevant texts such as health advice often found on sites like WebMD. People rely on such information for personal health management and clinically relevant decision making. In this work, we release a new annotated dataset, HealthE, consisting of 6,756 health advice. HealthE has a more granular label space compared to existing medical NER corpora and contains annotation for diverse health phrases. Additionally, we introduce a new health entity classification model, EP S-BERT, which leverages textual context patterns in the classification of entity classes. EP S-BERT provides a 4-point increase in F1 score over the nearest baseline and a 34-point increase in F1 when compared to off-the-shelf medical NER tools trained to extract disease and medication mentions from clinical texts. All code and data are publicly available on Github.
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