On-the-fly Definition Augmentation of LLMs for Biomedical NER

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2404.00152v2
• Date: Tue, 23 Apr 2024 17:43:31 GMT
• Title: On-the-fly Definition Augmentation of LLMs for Biomedical NER
• Authors: Monica Munnangi, Sergey Feldman, Byron C Wallace, Silvio Amir, Tom Hope, Aakanksha Naik,
• Abstract summary: LLMs struggle on biomedical NER tasks due to specialized terminology and lack of training data. We develop a new knowledge augmentation approach which incorporates definitions of relevant concepts on-the-fly. We find that careful prompting strategies also improve LLM performance, allowing them to outperform fine-tuned language models in few-shot settings.
• Score: 28.02028191114401
• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/
• Abstract: Despite their general capabilities, LLMs still struggle on biomedical NER tasks, which are difficult due to the presence of specialized terminology and lack of training data. In this work we set out to improve LLM performance on biomedical NER in limited data settings via a new knowledge augmentation approach which incorporates definitions of relevant concepts on-the-fly. During this process, to provide a test bed for knowledge augmentation, we perform a comprehensive exploration of prompting strategies. Our experiments show that definition augmentation is useful for both open source and closed LLMs. For example, it leads to a relative improvement of 15\% (on average) in GPT-4 performance (F1) across all (six) of our test datasets. We conduct extensive ablations and analyses to demonstrate that our performance improvements stem from adding relevant definitional knowledge. We find that careful prompting strategies also improve LLM performance, allowing them to outperform fine-tuned language models in few-shot settings. To facilitate future research in this direction, we release our code at https://github.com/allenai/beacon.

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