arXiv Computation and Language

Meddies-PII: A Multilingual Framework for Personally Identifiable Information Extraction in Clinical De-identification

arXiv Computation and Language
Sep 10

MedDeID enables locally governed clinical-text de-identification from real or synthetic training data

MedDeID is an on‑premises framework that combines in‑house annotation, synthetic‑note generation, model training, inference, pseudonymisation and evaluation to de‑identify clinical text. On a Dutch hospital benchmark, a hospital‑trained transformer detected 98.9 % of identifying text while redacting only 0.24 % of non‑identifier text; a synthetic‑only model achieved 96.1 %. In primary‑care notes, the synthetic‑trained model outperformed the hospital‑trained model in recall and robustness to identifier‑format changes, and an English version trained without real text reached 99.7 % and 98.9 % detection on synthetic benchmarks.

By Stig Hellemans, Tom Stroobants, Elyne Scheurwegs, Pieter Meysman, Philippe G. Jorens, Kris Laukens
arXiv AI
1d ago

CardioLM: A multilingual suite of small language models for the cardiology domain

arXiv:2611.07940v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Background: Cardiovascular care generates large volumes of clinical free-text documentation in local languages. However, clinical natural language pr...

By Manuela-Daniela Danu, Miguel Rodr\'iguez-Ortega, Alberto Becerra-Tome, Pablo Arancibia, Fernando Gallego-Donoso, Lorenzo Pratesi, Xi Bai, Andrei-Damian Dinescu, Salvador Lima-L\'opez, Andrea Guala, Saskia Haitjema, Jonas Mack, Michele Miranda, Wesam Al Nabki, Jan Rodr\'iguez-Miret, Vasile George Marica, Vladim\'ir Kincl, Kate\v{r}ina Dost\'alov\'a, Michael Andrej, Alicia Ujil, Corinne Allaart, Machteld Boonstra, Malin Overmars, Anoop Shah, Giovanna Ceroni, Jonathan Kossoff, Domenico D'Amario, Renzo Laborante, Antonio Iaconelli, Isabella Fumarulo, Jacopo Lenkowicz, Livia Lilli, Emma Weiss, Alex Scafa, Felix Lindberg, Milou Gamage, Eul\`alia Farr\'e-Maduell, S\'ebastien Brati\`eres, Martin Krallinger, Bram van Es
arXiv Computation and Language
Sep 11

Cross-Lingual Clinical Annotation Projection as Constrained Text Generation: A Six-Language Study

The study investigates whether cross‑lingual clinical annotation projection can be treated as a constrained text‑generation task that preserves the original text while inserting entity tags. Using a workflow that embeds tags directly into immutable target‑language text and then validates them deterministically, the authors evaluated this approach against supervised candidate‑span projection and hybrid ML‑LLM refinement across six languages. Results show that direct LLM projection, particularly with GLM 5.2 and Gemma4:31B, achieves the highest strict F1 scores (up to 0.9201) and outperforms previous methods by 0.0564–0.1512, producing over 55,000 grounded mentions with accurate offsets.

By \'Alvaro Rey-Blanes, Francisco J. Moreno-Barea, Francisco J. Veredas
arXiv Computation and Language
Oct 5

Enhancing Biomedical Named Entity Recognition via Multiple Programming Languages Instruction Tuning and Ensemble Method

The paper introduces MITE, a method that transforms biomedical named entity recognition (BioNER) into a structure‑to‑structure generation task by encoding instructions and outputs in multiple programming languages (Python, C++, Java). This approach provides structurally diverse supervision without extra biomedical knowledge, and during inference it aggregates predictions via entity‑level voting to reduce language‑specific variance. Experiments on six BioNER datasets show that MITE outperforms BERT‑based and LLM‑based baselines and generalizes well across datasets.

By Songtao Li, Yijia Zhang, Jianyuan Yuan, Shidi Zhang, Fengyu Zhang, Hongfei Lin
arXiv AI
Jun 11

Self-Prompting Small Language Models for Privacy-Sensitive Clinical Information Extraction

arXiv:2605. 04221v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Clinical named entity recognition from dental progress notes is challenging because documentation is highly unstructured, domain-specific, and often privacy-sensitive.

By Yao-Shun Chuang, Tushti Mody, Uday Pratap Singh, Shirindokht Shiraz, Chun-Teh Lee, Ryan Brandon, Muhammad F Walji, Xiaoqian Jiang, Bunmi Tokede
arXiv Machine Learning
Sep 25

Language Specificity vs. Domain Diversity: Benchmarking Transformers for Bangla Medical NER

This study benchmarks transformer models for Bangla medical named entity recognition (NER), comparing BanglaBERT, multilingual BERT (mBERT), XLM‑RoBERTa, and GPT‑4o mini under zero‑shot and few‑shot prompting. Across a full test set of 3,179 samples, fine‑tuned XLM‑RoBERTa achieves a new state‑of‑the‑art F1‑score of 0.5959, while BanglaBERT lags with 0.4937, suggesting that domain diversity outweighs language specificity. The analysis shows high performance on Medicine and Specialist entities (F1 > 0.83) but lower accuracy on Symptoms (F1 0.4367), and demonstrates that fine‑tuned transformers outperform prompt‑only approaches by a factor of 3.76.

By Rakib Abdullah, Md. Maruful Islam Maruf