The paper introduces a web‑data curation recipe for pretraining medical encoders, addressing the scarcity of large, diverse corpora in dense‑terminology domains like medicine. It proposes two complementary techniques: medical‑term density filtering to select documents rich in medical terminology, and signal‑amplifying rephrasing that uses an LLM to rewrite documents into denser variants with broader entity contexts. Applied to French medical NLP, the recipe produces the FineMed corpus and the DoctoBERT encoder family, achieving state‑of‑the‑art results on the DrBenchmark public benchmark and a proprietary clinical NER task.
By Bofeng Huang, Jacques Sun, Diane Bouchacourt, Nicolas Barascud, Fajwel Fogel
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
The paper investigates continued pretraining (CPT) of the Finnish BERT model (FinBERT) on a Finnish histopathological dataset, noting that CPT train‑time loss curves vary significantly across domains. Since the histopathology data lacks labels, the authors use public Finnish datasets as proxy data to examine whether CPT‑derived signals correlate with downstream classification gains. Their exploratory analysis finds that certain CPT features are associated with improved proxy classification performance, adding to the sparse literature on Finnish healthcare NLP.
By Rami Luisto, Liisa Pet\"ainen, Tommi Gr\"onholm, Jan B\"ohm, Maarit Ahtiainen, Tomi Lilja, Ilkka P\"ol\"onen, Sami \"Ayr\"am\"o
arXiv:2604. 25374v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Background: Dutch medical corpora are scarce, limiting NLP development.
By B. van Es
arXiv:2608.29890v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Biomedical Named Entity Recognition (NER) is fundamental to healthcare AI applications, including clinical decision support and medical information ext...
By Nhu Vo, Phuong Nguyen, Nu Uyen Phuong Le, Inigo Jauregi Unanue, Dung D. Le, Massimo Piccardi, Wray Buntine
The paper examines how multilingual medical adaptation affects the internal representations of Whisper ASR models. By comparing various fine‑tuning strategies—zero‑shot decoding, English‑only, German‑only, two‑stage EN→EN+DE, and direct EN+DE fine‑tuning—it shows that fine‑tuning significantly improves performance, with the best model varying by setting. Layer‑wise encoder analysis reveals that English medical fine‑tuning drives the main representation shift, while multilingual continuation largely preserves the adapted space, and that domain and language signals remain recoverable across layers.
By Souranil Kahali, Rituparna Bose, Abner Hernandez, Tomas Arias-Vergara, Andreas Maier, Ning Ma, Paula Andrea Perez-Toro
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
The paper examines how multilingual medical adaptation affects the internal representations of Whisper ASR models by performing layer‑wise encoder analysis. It compares several adaptation strategies—zero‑shot decoding, English‑only fine‑tuning, German‑only diagnostic fine‑tuning, two‑stage EN→EN+DE continuation, and direct EN+DE fine‑tuning—across different Whisper sizes, finding that fine‑tuning improves performance but the best model varies by setting. Layer‑wise results show that English medical fine‑tuning drives the main encoder shift, while multilingual continuation largely preserves the adapted representation space, with domain and language information remaining recoverable across layers.
"whyItMatters":"The study provides insight into how multilingual medical adaptation reshapes Whisper’s internal representations, guiding the selection of model sizes and fine‑tuning strategies for improved MedASR performance."
The study investigates whether cross‑lingual clinical annotation 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 compare this approach to 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, surpassing previous state‑of‑the‑art by up to 0.15 and producing over 55,000 grounded mentions with accurate offsets.
arXiv:2606. 24200v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) in clinical settings increasingly requires multilingual retrieval against predominantly English evidence corpora.
By Junhyeok Lee, Han Jang, Hyeonjin Goh, Kyu Sung Choi
arXiv:2607. 15380v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Electronic health records combine free-text clinical narratives with structured measurements such as vital signs, laboratory values, and comorbidities.
By Ajay Madhavan Ravichandran, Bilgin Osmandoja, Klemens Budde, Klaus Netter, Tobias Strapatsas, Aljoscha Burchardt, Sebastian M\"oller, Roland Roller
arXiv:2511.00421v2 Announce Type: replace-cross
Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) show promise in medical applications, but their ability to detect and correct errors in clinical texts remains u...
By Naoto Iwase, Hiroki Okuyama, Junichiro Iwasawa