Document-level Relation Extraction (DocRE) aims to extract relations from documents. Compared with sentence-level relation extraction, it is necessary to extract long-distance dependencies. Existing methods enhance the output of trained DocRE models either by learning logical rules or by extracting rules from annotated data and then injecting them into the model. However, these approaches can result in suboptimal performance due to incorrect rule set constraints. To mitigate this issue, we propose Context-aware differentiable rule learning or CaDRL for short, a novel differentiable rule-based framework that learns the doc-specific logical rule to avoid generating suboptimal constraints. Specifically, we utilize Transformer-based relation attention to encode document and relation information, thereby learning the contextual information of the relation. We employ a sequence-generated differentiable rule decoder to generate relational probabilistic logic rules at each reasoning step. We also introduce a parameter sharing training mechanism in CaDRL to reconcile the DocRE model and the rule learning module. Extensive experimental results on three DocRE datasets demonstrate that CaDRL outperforms existing rule-based frameworks, significantly improving DocRE performance and making predictions more interpretable and logical.

Automatic radiology report generation is pivotal in reducing the workload of radiologists, while simultaneously improving diagnostic accuracy and operational efficiency. Current methods face significant challenges, including the effective alignment of medical visual features with textual features and the mitigation of data bias. In this paper, we propose a method for radiology report generation that utilizes a Cross-modal Enhancement and Alignment Adapter (CmEAA) to connect a vision encoder with a frozen large language model. Specifically, we introduce two novel modules within CmEAA: Cross-modal Feature Enhancement (CFE) and Neural Mutual Information Aligner (NMIA). CFE extracts observation-related contextual features to enhance the visual features of lesions and abnormal regions in radiology images through a cross-modal enhancement transformer. NMIA maximizes neural mutual information between visual and textual representations within a low-dimensional alignment embedding space during training and provides potential global alignment visual representations during inference. Additionally, a weights generator is designed to enable the dynamic adaptation of cross-modal enhanced features and vanilla visual features. Experimental results on two prevailing datasets, namely, IU X-Ray and MIMIC-CXR, demonstrate that the proposed model outperforms previous state-of-the-art methods.

“Natural language processing technology has been widely applied in the field of education. Essay writing serves as a crucial method for evaluating students’ language skills and logical thinking abilities. Rhetoric, an essential component of essay, is also a key reference for assessing writing quality. In the era of large language models (LLMs), applying LLMs to the tasks of automatic classification and extraction of rhetorical devices is of significant importance. In this paper, we fine-tune LLMs with specific instructions to adapt them for the tasks of recognizing and extracting rhetorical devices in essays. To further enhance the performance of LLMs, we experimented with multi-task fine-tuning and expanded the training dataset through synthetic data. Additionally, we explored a model ensemble approach based on label re-inference. Our method achieved a score of 66.29 in Task 6 of the CCL 2024 Eval, Chinese Essay Rhetoric Recognition and Understanding(CERRU), securing the first position.”

“尽管现有语言模型在自然语言处理任务上表现出色,但在深层次语义理解和常识推理方面仍有提升空间。本研究通过测试模型在儿童故事常识推理与寓意理解数据集(CRMUS)上的性能,探究如何增强模型在复杂任务中的能力。在本次任务的赛道二中,本研究使用多个7B以内的开源大模型(如Qwen、InternLM等)进行零样本推理,并选择表现最优的模型基于LoRA进行指令微调来提高其表现。除此之外,本研究还对数据集进行了分析与增强。研究结果显示,通过设计有效的指令格式和调整LoRA微调参数,模型在常识推理和寓意理解上的准确率显著提高。最终在本次任务的赛道二中取得第一名的成绩,该任务的评价指标Acc值为74.38,达到了较为先进的水准。”

Artificial Intelligence (AI), along with the recent progress in biomedical language understanding, is gradually offering great promise for medical practice. With the development of biomedical language understanding benchmarks, AI applications are widely used in the medical field. However, most benchmarks are limited to English, which makes it challenging to replicate many of the successes in English for other languages. To facilitate research in this direction, we collect real-world biomedical data and present the first Chinese Biomedical Language Understanding Evaluation (CBLUE) benchmark: a collection of natural language understanding tasks including named entity recognition, information extraction, clinical diagnosis normalization, single-sentence/sentence-pair classification, and an associated online platform for model evaluation, comparison, and analysis. To establish evaluation on these tasks, we report empirical results with the current 11 pre-trained Chinese models, and experimental results show that state-of-the-art neural models perform by far worse than the human ceiling.

电子病历是医疗信息的重要来源,包含大量与医疗相关的领域知识。本文从糖尿病电子病历文本入手,在调研了国内外已有的电子病历语料库的基础上,参考坉圲坂圲实体及关系分类,建立了糖尿病电子病历实体及实体关系分类体系,并制定了标注规范。利用实体及关系标注平台,进行了实体及关系预标注及多轮人工校对工作,形成了糖尿病电子病历实体及关系标注语料库(Diabetes Electronic Medical Record entity and Related Corpus DEMRC)。所构建的DEMRC包含8899个实体、456个实体修饰及16564个关系。对DEMRC进行一致性评价和分析,标注结果达到了较高的一致性。针对实体识别和实体关系抽取任务,分别采用基于迁移学习的Bi-LSTM-CRF模型和RoBERTa模型进行初步实验,并对语料库中的各类实体及关系进行评估,为后续糖尿病电子病历实体识别及关系抽取研究以及糖尿病知识图谱构建打下基础。

本文探讨了在脑卒中疾病中文电子病历文本中实体及实体间关系的标注问题,提出了适用于脑卒中疾病电子病历文本的实体及实体关系标注体系和规范。在标注体系和规范的指导下,进行了多轮的人工标注及校正工作,完成了158万余字的脑卒中电子病历文本实体及实体关系的标注工作。构建了脑卒中电子病历实体及实体关系标注语料库(Stroke Electronic Medical Record entity and entity related Corpus SEMRC)。所构建的语料库共包含命名实体10594个,实体关系14457个。实体名标注一致率达到85.16%,实体关系标注一致率达到94.16%。

随着智慧医疗的普及,利用自然语言处理技术识别医学信息的需求日益增长。目前,针对医学实体而言,医学共享语料库仍处于空白状态,这对医学文本信息处理各项任务的进展造成了巨大阻力。如何判断不同的医学实体类别?如何界定不同实体间的涵盖范围?这些问题导致缺乏类似通用场景的大规模规范标注的医学文本数据。针对上述问题,该文参考了UMLS中定义的语义类型,提出面向医学文本信息处理的医学实体标注规范,涵盖了疾病、临床表现、医疗程序、医疗设备等9种医学实体,以及基于规范构建医学实体标注语料库。该文综述了标注规范的描述体系、分类原则、混淆处理、语料标注过程以及医学实体自动标注基线实验等相关问题,希望能为医学实体语料库的构建提供可参考的标注规范,以及为医学实体识别提供语料支持。

The obstetric Electronic Medical Record (EMR) contains a large amount of medical data and health information. It plays a vital role in improving the quality of the diagnosis assistant service. In this paper, we treat the diagnosis assistant as a multi-label classification task and propose a Knowledge-Enabled Diagnosis Assistant (KEDA) model for the obstetric diagnosis assistant. We utilize the numerical information in EMRs and the external knowledge from Chinese Obstetric Knowledge Graph (COKG) to enhance the text representation of EMRs. Specifically, the bidirectional maximum matching method and similarity-based approach are used to obtain the entities set contained in EMRs and linked to the COKG. The final knowledge representation is obtained by a weight-based disease prediction algorithm, and it is fused with the text representation through a linear weighting method. Experiment results show that our approach can bring about +3.53 F1 score improvements upon the strong BERT baseline in the diagnosis assistant task.