Efficient Elicitation of Fictitious Nursing Notes from Volunteer Healthcare Professionals

Jesper Vaaben Bornerup, Christian Hardmeier


Abstract
Reliable automatic solutions to extract structured information from free-text nursing notes could bring important efficiency gains in healthcare, but their development is hampered by the sensitivity and limited availability of example data. We describe a method for eliciting fictitious nursing documentation and associated structured documentation from volunteers and a resulting dataset of 397 Danish notes collected and annotated through a custom web application from 98 participating nurses. After some manual refinement, we obtained a high-quality dataset containing nurse notes with relevant entities identified. We describe the implementation and limitations of our approach as well as initial experiments in a named entity tagging setup.
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2025.nodalida-1.74
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Proceedings of the Joint 25th Nordic Conference on Computational Linguistics and 11th Baltic Conference on Human Language Technologies (NoDaLiDa/Baltic-HLT 2025)
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2025
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Tallinn, Estonia
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Richard Johansson, Sara Stymne
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Jesper Vaaben Bornerup and Christian Hardmeier. 2025. Efficient Elicitation of Fictitious Nursing Notes from Volunteer Healthcare Professionals. In Proceedings of the Joint 25th Nordic Conference on Computational Linguistics and 11th Baltic Conference on Human Language Technologies (NoDaLiDa/Baltic-HLT 2025), pages 739–754, Tallinn, Estonia. University of Tartu Library.
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