LLMs in Biomedicine: A study on clinical Named Entity Recognition
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2404.07376
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Published
Note - This paper investigates LLMs application in the biomedical domain by exploring strategies to enhance their performance for the NER task - Results indicate that integrating external biomedical knowledge via prompting strategies can enhance the proficiency of general-purpose LLMs to meet the specialized needs of biomedical NER Problem Statement: LLMs encounter challenges in medical IE due to the scarcity of high-quality biomedical data in their pretraining - Medical entities can have multiple s
Note 2506.01961