CBLUE: A Chinese Biomedical Language Understanding Evaluation Benchmark

Ningyu Zhang, Mosha Chen, Zhen Bi, Xiaozhuan Liang, Lei Li, Xin Shang, Kangping Yin, Chuanqi Tan, Jian Xu, Fei Huang, Luo Si, Yuan Ni, Guotong Xie, Zhifang Sui, Baobao Chang, Hui Zong, Zheng Yuan, Linfeng Li, Jun Yan, Hongying Zan, Kunli Zhang, Buzhou Tang, Qingcai Chen


Abstract
Artificial Intelligence (AI), along with the recent progress in biomedical language understanding, is gradually offering great promise for medical practice. With the development of biomedical language understanding benchmarks, AI applications are widely used in the medical field. However, most benchmarks are limited to English, which makes it challenging to replicate many of the successes in English for other languages. To facilitate research in this direction, we collect real-world biomedical data and present the first Chinese Biomedical Language Understanding Evaluation (CBLUE) benchmark: a collection of natural language understanding tasks including named entity recognition, information extraction, clinical diagnosis normalization, single-sentence/sentence-pair classification, and an associated online platform for model evaluation, comparison, and analysis. To establish evaluation on these tasks, we report empirical results with the current 11 pre-trained Chinese models, and experimental results show that state-of-the-art neural models perform by far worse than the human ceiling.
Anthology ID:
2022.acl-long.544
Volume:
Proceedings of the 60th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers)
Month:
May
Year:
2022
Address:
Dublin, Ireland
Editors:
Smaranda Muresan, Preslav Nakov, Aline Villavicencio
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ACL
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Publisher:
Association for Computational Linguistics
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Pages:
7888–7915
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URL:
https://aclanthology.org/2022.acl-long.544
DOI:
10.18653/v1/2022.acl-long.544
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Cite (ACL):
Ningyu Zhang, Mosha Chen, Zhen Bi, Xiaozhuan Liang, Lei Li, Xin Shang, Kangping Yin, Chuanqi Tan, Jian Xu, Fei Huang, Luo Si, Yuan Ni, Guotong Xie, Zhifang Sui, Baobao Chang, Hui Zong, Zheng Yuan, Linfeng Li, Jun Yan, et al.. 2022. CBLUE: A Chinese Biomedical Language Understanding Evaluation Benchmark. In Proceedings of the 60th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers), pages 7888–7915, Dublin, Ireland. Association for Computational Linguistics.
Cite (Informal):
CBLUE: A Chinese Biomedical Language Understanding Evaluation Benchmark (Zhang et al., ACL 2022)
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PDF:
https://preview.aclanthology.org/naacl24-info/2022.acl-long.544.pdf
Software:
 2022.acl-long.544.software.zip
Code
 cbluebenchmark/cblue +  additional community code
Data
CHIP-CDNCHIP-STSCMeEEKUAKE-QICKUAKE-QQRKUAKE-QTRCHIP-CTCCLUECMeIESuperGLUE