Patient-friendly Clinical Notes: Towards a new Text Simplification Dataset
2022-12-07Proceedings of the Workshop on Text Simplification, Accessibility, and Readability (TSAR) 2022Code Available0· sign in to hype
Jan Trienes, Jörg Schlötterer, Hans-Ulrich Schildhaus, Christin Seifert
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Abstract
Automatic text simplification can help patients to better understand their own clinical notes. A major hurdle for the development of clinical text simplification methods is the lack of high quality resources. We report ongoing efforts in creating a parallel dataset of professionally simplified clinical notes. Currently, this corpus consists of 851 document-level simplifications of German pathology reports. We highlight characteristics of this dataset and establish first baselines for paragraph-level simplification.