Challenge: a new benchmark for biomedical language understanding is being developed in Chinese . most benchmarks are limited to English, which makes it difficult to replicate success in other languages.
Approach: They propose to use Chinese biomedical language understanding evaluation benchmarks to evaluate Chinese models.
Outcome: The proposed benchmarks show that the current models perform worse than the human ceiling.

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