Can Synthetic Text Help Clinical Named Entity Recognition? A Study of Electronic Health Records in French (2023.eacl-main)
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| Challenge: | In sensitive domains, the sharing of corpora is restricted due to confidentiality, copyrights or trade secrets. |
| Approach: | They use auto-regressive neural models to generate a clinical case corpus annotated with clinical entities and evaluate it for a named entity recognition task. |
| Outcome: | The proposed model can produce clinical case corpus annotated with clinical entities while maintaining confidentiality. |
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