Sensitive Data Detection and Classification in Spanish Clinical Text: Experiments with BERT (2020.lrec-1)
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| Challenge: | Massive digital data processing can endanger personal data privacy . anonymisation involves removing or replacing sensitive information from data . |
| Approach: | They propose to use a BERT-based sequence labelling model to conduct an experiment on clinical datasets in Spanish. |
| Outcome: | The proposed model outperforms existing models on clinical datasets in Spanish and shows that it is highly competitive with other models. |
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