Identifying and Aligning Medical Claims Made on Social Media with Medical Evidence (2024.lrec-main)
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| Challenge: | Evidence-based medicine is the practice of making medical decisions that adhere to the latest, and best known evidence available. |
| Approach: | They propose a system that can generate synthetic medical claims to aid each of these tasks and a dataset that demonstrates an improvement in all comparable metrics. |
| Outcome: | The proposed system improves on core tasks and shows that it is more flexible and holistic. |
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