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Comparing generative and extractive approaches to information extraction from abstracts describing randomized clinical trials.

Christian WitteDavid M SchmidtPhilipp Cimiano
Published in: Journal of biomedical semantics (2024)
In our experiments, both approaches show promising performance extracting structured PICO information from RCTs, especially considering that most related work focuses on the far easier task of predicting less structured objects. In our experimental results, the extractive approach performs best in both cases, although the lead is greater for glaucoma than for type 2 diabetes. For future work, it remains to be investigated how the base model size affects the performance of both approaches in comparison. Although the extractive approach currently leaves more room for direct improvements, the generative approach might benefit from larger models.
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