Unsupervised Domain Adaptation for Clinical Negation Detection

Miller T, Bethard S, Amiri H, Savova G. Unsupervised Domain Adaptation for Clinical Negation Detection. In: BioNLP 2017. Vancouver, Canada,: Association for Computational Linguistics; 2017. pp. 165–170.

Abstract

Detecting negated concepts in clinical texts is an important part of NLP information extraction systems. However, generalizability of negation systems is lacking, as cross-domain experiments suffer dramatic performance losses. We examine the performance of multiple unsupervised domain adaptation algorithms on clinical negation detection, finding only modest gains that fall well short of in-domain performance.
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