Abstract
Inspired by the success of the General Language Understanding Evaluation benchmark, we introduce the Biomedical Language Understanding Evaluation (BLUE) benchmark to facilitate research in the development of pre-training language representations in the biomedicine domain. The benchmark consists of five tasks with ten datasets that cover both biomedical and clinical texts with different dataset sizes and difficulties. We also evaluate several baselines based on BERT and ELMo and find that the BERT model pre-trained on PubMed abstracts and MIMIC-III clinical notes achieves the best results. We make the datasets, pre-trained models, and codes publicly available at https://github.com/ncbi-nlp/BLUE_Benchmark.- Anthology ID:
- W19-5006
- Volume:
- Proceedings of the 18th BioNLP Workshop and Shared Task
- Month:
- August
- Year:
- 2019
- Address:
- Florence, Italy
- Editors:
- Dina Demner-Fushman, Kevin Bretonnel Cohen, Sophia Ananiadou, Junichi Tsujii
- Venue:
- BioNLP
- SIG:
- SIGBIOMED
- Publisher:
- Association for Computational Linguistics
- Note:
- Pages:
- 58–65
- Language:
- URL:
- https://aclanthology.org/W19-5006
- DOI:
- 10.18653/v1/W19-5006
- Cite (ACL):
- Yifan Peng, Shankai Yan, and Zhiyong Lu. 2019. Transfer Learning in Biomedical Natural Language Processing: An Evaluation of BERT and ELMo on Ten Benchmarking Datasets. In Proceedings of the 18th BioNLP Workshop and Shared Task, pages 58–65, Florence, Italy. Association for Computational Linguistics.
- Cite (Informal):
- Transfer Learning in Biomedical Natural Language Processing: An Evaluation of BERT and ELMo on Ten Benchmarking Datasets (Peng et al., BioNLP 2019)
- PDF:
- https://preview.aclanthology.org/add_acl24_videos/W19-5006.pdf
- Code
- ncbi-nlp/NCBI_BERT + additional community code
- Data
- BLUE, BC5CDR, BIOSSES, ChemProt, DDI, GLUE, HOC, MIMIC-III, MedNLI