Optimizing Biomedical Text Processing: A Comparative Analysis of Tokenization Methods and Context-Aware Representation Learning
摘要
Natural Language Processing (NLP) workflows in biomedical domains face unique challenges due to specialized terminologies and the need for high precision in downstream applications. This study presents a systematic framework for preprocessing and analyzing biomedical texts, with a focus on evaluating tokenization strategies and their impact on representation learning. We have proposed a dual-phase approach: first, benchmarking various tokenizers across efficiency and domain-specific accuracy metrics; second, integrating context-aware embedding techniques to enhance semantic capture. Our experiments reveal that SciSpacy outperforms conventional tokenizers in biomedical term recognition despite computational trade-offs, while custom-trained BPE models achieve a 22% reduction in out-of-vocabulary rates compared to generic implementations. Visualization via t-SNE and co-occurrence networks demonstrates that domain-specific embeddings cluster biomedical entities (e.g., respiratory terms, medications) with 89% intra-class similarity, significantly improving interpretability. This work bridges the gap between generic NLP pipelines and biomedical text requirements, offering actionable insights for optimizing preprocessing workflows and representation models.