Patient-friendly Clinical Notes: Towards a new Text Simplification Dataset

Jan Trienes, Jörg Schlötterer, Hans-Ulrich Schildhaus, Christin Seifert


Abstract
Automatic text simplification can help patients to better understand their own clinical notes. A major hurdle for the development of clinical text simplification methods is the lack of high quality resources. We report ongoing efforts in creating a parallel dataset of professionally simplified clinical notes. Currently, this corpus consists of 851 document-level simplifications of German pathology reports. We highlight characteristics of this dataset and establish first baselines for paragraph-level simplification.
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2022.tsar-1.3
Volume:
Proceedings of the Workshop on Text Simplification, Accessibility, and Readability (TSAR-2022)
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December
Year:
2022
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Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates (Virtual)
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Sanja Štajner, Horacio Saggion, Daniel Ferrés, Matthew Shardlow, Kim Cheng Sheang, Kai North, Marcos Zampieri, Wei Xu
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TSAR
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Association for Computational Linguistics
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19–27
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https://aclanthology.org/2022.tsar-1.3
DOI:
10.18653/v1/2022.tsar-1.3
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Jan Trienes, Jörg Schlötterer, Hans-Ulrich Schildhaus, and Christin Seifert. 2022. Patient-friendly Clinical Notes: Towards a new Text Simplification Dataset. In Proceedings of the Workshop on Text Simplification, Accessibility, and Readability (TSAR-2022), pages 19–27, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates (Virtual). Association for Computational Linguistics.
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Patient-friendly Clinical Notes: Towards a new Text Simplification Dataset (Trienes et al., TSAR 2022)
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