SYMPTOMIFY: Transforming Symptom Annotations with Language Model Knowledge Harvesting

Bosung Kim, Ndapa Nakashole


Abstract
Given the high-stakes nature of healthcare decision-making, we aim to improve the efficiency of human annotators rather than replacing them with fully automated solutions. We introduce a new comprehensive resource, SYMPTOMIFY, a dataset of annotated vaccine adverse reaction reports detailing individual vaccine reactions. The dataset, consisting of over 800k reports, surpasses previous datasets in size. Notably, it features reasoning-based explanations alongside background knowledge obtained via language model knowledge harvesting. We evaluate performance across various methods and learning paradigms, paving the way for future comparisons and benchmarking.
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2023.findings-emnlp.781
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Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2023
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December
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2023
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Singapore
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Houda Bouamor, Juan Pino, Kalika Bali
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11667–11681
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https://aclanthology.org/2023.findings-emnlp.781
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10.18653/v1/2023.findings-emnlp.781
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Bosung Kim and Ndapa Nakashole. 2023. SYMPTOMIFY: Transforming Symptom Annotations with Language Model Knowledge Harvesting. In Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2023, pages 11667–11681, Singapore. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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