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Biomedical Data-to-Text Generation via Fine-Tuning Transformers

Machine Learning 2021-09-06 v1 Computation and Language

Abstract

Data-to-text (D2T) generation in the biomedical domain is a promising - yet mostly unexplored - field of research. Here, we apply neural models for D2T generation to a real-world dataset consisting of package leaflets of European medicines. We show that fine-tuned transformers are able to generate realistic, multisentence text from data in the biomedical domain, yet have important limitations. We also release a new dataset (BioLeaflets) for benchmarking D2T generation models in the biomedical domain.

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@article{arxiv.2109.01518,
  title  = {Biomedical Data-to-Text Generation via Fine-Tuning Transformers},
  author = {Ruslan Yermakov and Nicholas Drago and Angelo Ziletti},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2109.01518},
  year   = {2021}
}

Comments

Accepted at ACL-INGL2021 (International Conference on Natural Language Generation organised by the Association for Computational Linguistics)

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