Automatic sentence segmentation of clinical record narratives in real-world data (2024.emnlp-main)
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| Challenge: | Sentence segmentation is a linguistic task used as a pre-processing step in many NLP applications. |
| Approach: | They propose a sequence labeling classifier that predicts sentence spans using a dynamic sliding window based on the prediction of each input sequence. |
| Outcome: | The proposed method outperforms state-of-the-art systems on clinical notes and on five other datasets to assess its generalizability and performance. |
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