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Medical Crossing: a Cross-lingual Evaluation of Clinical Entity Linking

1 Jun 2022LREC 2022 6archive 2025-07-28

Anton Alekseev, Zulfat Miftahutdinov, Elena Tutubalina, Artem Shelmanov, Vladimir Ivanov, Vladimir Kokh, Alexander Nesterov, Manvel Avetisian, Andrei Chertok, Sergey Nikolenko

Medical data annotation requires highly qualified expertise. Despite the efforts devoted to medical entity linking in different languages, available data is very sparse in terms of both data volume and languages. In this work, we establish benchmarks for cross-lingual medical entity linking using clinical reports, clinical guidelines, and medical research papers. We present a test set filtering procedure designed to analyze the “hard cases” of entity linking approaching zero-shot cross-lingual transfer learning, evaluate state-of-the-art models, and draw several interesting conclusions based on our evaluation results.

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Cross-Lingual TransferEntity LinkingTransfer LearningZero-Shot Cross-Lingual Transfer

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