Lessons from Natural Language Inference in the Clinical Domain (D18-1)

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Challenge: State of the art models with deep neural networks lack generalization capabilities in specialized domains where training data is limited.
Approach: They propose a dataset annotated by doctors performing a natural language inference task grounded in the medical history of patients.
Outcome: The proposed model outperforms existing models in the clinical domain by incorporating domain knowledge from external data and lexical sources.

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