Hierarchical Pretraining for Biomedical Term Embeddings

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2307.00266v1
• Date: Sat, 1 Jul 2023 08:16:00 GMT
• Title: Hierarchical Pretraining for Biomedical Term Embeddings
• Authors: Bryan Cai, Sihang Zeng, Yucong Lin, Zheng Yuan, Doudou Zhou, and Lu Tian
• Abstract summary: We propose HiPrBERT, a novel biomedical term representation model trained on hierarchical data. We show that HiPrBERT effectively learns the pair-wise distance from hierarchical information, resulting in a substantially more informative embeddings for further biomedical applications.
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• License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
• Abstract: Electronic health records (EHR) contain narrative notes that provide extensive details on the medical condition and management of patients. Natural language processing (NLP) of clinical notes can use observed frequencies of clinical terms as predictive features for downstream applications such as clinical decision making and patient trajectory prediction. However, due to the vast number of highly similar and related clinical concepts, a more effective modeling strategy is to represent clinical terms as semantic embeddings via representation learning and use the low dimensional embeddings as feature vectors for predictive modeling. To achieve efficient representation, fine-tuning pretrained language models with biomedical knowledge graphs may generate better embeddings for biomedical terms than those from standard language models alone. These embeddings can effectively discriminate synonymous pairs of from those that are unrelated. However, they often fail to capture different degrees of similarity or relatedness for concepts that are hierarchical in nature. To overcome this limitation, we propose HiPrBERT, a novel biomedical term representation model trained on additionally complied data that contains hierarchical structures for various biomedical terms. We modify an existing contrastive loss function to extract information from these hierarchies. Our numerical experiments demonstrate that HiPrBERT effectively learns the pair-wise distance from hierarchical information, resulting in a substantially more informative embeddings for further biomedical applications

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