Multi-task transfer learning for the prediction of entity modifiers in clinical text: application to opioid use disorder case detection

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2024年6月7日

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Abdullateef I. Almudaifer,
Whitney Covington,
JaMor Hairston,
Zachary Deitch,
Ankit Anand,
Caleb M. Carroll,
Estera Crisan,
William Bradford,
Lauren A. Walter,
Ellen F. Eaton,
Sue S. Feldman,
John D. Osborne

摘要

Background

The semantics of entities extracted from a clinical text can be dramatically altered by modifiers, including entity negation, uncertainty, conditionality, severity, and subject. Existing models for determining modifiers of clinical entities involve regular expression or features weights that are trained independently for each modifier.

Methods

We develop and evaluate a multi-task transformer architecture design where modifiers are learned and predicted jointly using the publicly available SemEval 2015 Task 14 corpus and a new Opioid Use Disorder (OUD) data set that contains modifiers shared with SemEval as well as novel modifiers specific for OUD. We evaluate the effectiveness of our multi-task learning approach versus previously published systems and assess the feasibility of transfer learning for clinical entity modifiers when only a portion of clinical modifiers are shared.

Results

Our approach achieved state-of-the-art results on the ShARe corpus from SemEval 2015 Task 14, showing an increase of 1.1% on weighted accuracy, 1.7% on unweighted accuracy, and 10% on micro F1 scores.

Conclusions

We show that learned weights from our shared model can be effectively transferred to a new partially matched data set, validating the use of transfer learning for clinical text modifiers.