Incorporating Risk Factor Embeddings in Pre-trained Transformers Improves Sentiment Prediction in Psychiatric Discharge Summaries

Xiyu Ding, Mei-Hua Hall, Timothy Miller


Abstract
Reducing rates of early hospital readmission has been recognized and identified as a key to improve quality of care and reduce costs. There are a number of risk factors that have been hypothesized to be important for understanding re-admission risk, including such factors as problems with substance abuse, ability to maintain work, relations with family. In this work, we develop Roberta-based models to predict the sentiment of sentences describing readmission risk factors in discharge summaries of patients with psychosis. We improve substantially on previous results by a scheme that shares information across risk factors while also allowing the model to learn risk factor-specific information.
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2020.clinicalnlp-1.4
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Proceedings of the 3rd Clinical Natural Language Processing Workshop
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November
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2020
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Online
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Anna Rumshisky, Kirk Roberts, Steven Bethard, Tristan Naumann
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ClinicalNLP
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Association for Computational Linguistics
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35–40
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https://aclanthology.org/2020.clinicalnlp-1.4
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10.18653/v1/2020.clinicalnlp-1.4
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Xiyu Ding, Mei-Hua Hall, and Timothy Miller. 2020. Incorporating Risk Factor Embeddings in Pre-trained Transformers Improves Sentiment Prediction in Psychiatric Discharge Summaries. In Proceedings of the 3rd Clinical Natural Language Processing Workshop, pages 35–40, Online. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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Incorporating Risk Factor Embeddings in Pre-trained Transformers Improves Sentiment Prediction in Psychiatric Discharge Summaries (Ding et al., ClinicalNLP 2020)
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