Assessing the Impact of the Quality of Textual Data on Feature Representation and Machine Learning Models

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2502.08669v1
• Date: Wed, 12 Feb 2025 00:27:49 GMT
• Title: Assessing the Impact of the Quality of Textual Data on Feature Representation and Machine Learning Models
• Authors: Tabinda Sarwar, Antonio Jose Jimeno Yepes, Lawrence Cavedon,
• Abstract summary: The study analyzed two healthcare datasets: the high-quality MIMIC-III public hospital dataset and a lower-quality private dataset from Australian aged care homes.<n>Mixtral correctly detected errors in 63% of progress notes, with 17% containing a single token misclassified due to medical terminology.
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• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: Background: Data collected in controlled settings typically results in high-quality datasets. However, in real-world applications, the quality of data collection is often compromised. It is well established that the quality of a dataset significantly impacts the performance of machine learning models. Methods: A rudimentary error rate metric was developed to evaluate textual dataset quality at the token level. Mixtral Large Language Model (LLM) was used to quantify and correct errors in low quality datasets. The study analyzed two healthcare datasets: the high-quality MIMIC-III public hospital dataset and a lower-quality private dataset from Australian aged care homes. Errors were systematically introduced into MIMIC at varying rates, while the ACH dataset quality was improved using the LLM. Results: For the sampled 35,774 and 6,336 patients from the MIMIC and ACH datasets respectively, we used Mixtral to introduce errors in MIMIC and correct errors in ACH. Mixtral correctly detected errors in 63% of progress notes, with 17% containing a single token misclassified due to medical terminology. LLMs demonstrated potential for improving progress note quality by addressing various errors. Under varying error rates, feature representation performance was tolerant to lower error rates (<10%) but declined significantly at higher rates. Conclusions: The study revealed that models performed relatively well on datasets with lower error rates (<10%), but their performance declined significantly as error rates increased (>=10%). Therefore, it is crucial to evaluate the quality of a dataset before utilizing it for machine learning tasks. For datasets with higher error rates, implementing corrective measures is essential to ensure the reliability and effectiveness of machine learning models.

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