Limitations of Transformers on Clinical Text Classification

Bidirectional Encoder Representations from Transformers (BERT) and BERT-based approaches are the current state-of-the-art in many natural language processing (NLP) tasks; however, their application to document classification on long clinical texts is limited. In this work, we introduce four methods...

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Main Authors: Alawad, M. (Author), Coyle, L. (Author), Doherty, J. (Author), Durbin, E.B (Author), Gao, S. (Author), Gounley, J. (Author), Schaefferkoetter, N. (Author), Stroup, A. (Author), Tourassi, G. (Author), Wu, X.-C (Author), Yoon, H.J (Author), Young, M.T (Author)
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Language:English
Published: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. 2021
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