Clinical Contradiction Detection
Submission Type: Regular Long Paper
Submission Track: NLP Applications
Submission Track 2: Commonsense Reasoning
Keywords: clinical contradiction detection, medical ontologies, clinical distant supervision
TL;DR: Clinical contradiction detection benefits from using distant supervision paired with a medical ontology.
Abstract: Detecting contradictions in text is essential in determining the validity of the literature and sources that we consume. Medical corpora are riddled with conflicting statements. This is due to the large throughput of new studies and the difficulty in replicating experiments, such as clinical trials.
Detecting contradictions in this domain is hard since it requires clinical expertise.
We present a distant supervision approach that leverages a medical ontology to build a seed of potential clinical contradictions over 22 million medical abstracts.
We automatically build a labeled training dataset consisting of paired clinical sentences that are grounded in an ontology and represent potential medical contradiction. The dataset is used to weakly-supervise state-of-the-art deep learning models showing significant empirical improvements across multiple medical contradiction datasets.
Submission Number: 1074
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