Exploring semantic information in disease: Simple Data Augmentation Techniques for Chinese Disease Normalization

arXiv:2306.01931v2 Announce Type: replace
Abstract: Disease name normalization is an important task in the medical domain. It classifies disease names written in various formats into standardized names, serving as a fundamental component in smart healthcare systems for various disease-related functions. Nevertheless, the most significant obstacle to existing disease name normalization systems is the severe shortage of training data. While data augmentation is a powerful approach for addressing data scarcity, our findings reveal that conventional data augmentation techniques often impede task …

abstract arxiv augmentation chinese cs.ai cs.cl data disease domain functions healthcare information medical normalization semantic simple smart systems type