Quality of word and concept embeddings in targetted biomedical domains

Embeddings are fundamental resources often reused for building intelligent systems in the biomedical context. As a result, evaluating the quality of previously trained embeddings and ensuring they cover the desired information is critical for the success of applications. This paper proposes a new ev...

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Published in:Heliyon 2023-06, Vol.9 (6), p.e16818-e16818, Article e16818
Main Authors: Giancani, Salvatore, Albertoni, Riccardo, Catalano, Chiara Eva
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease
Coverage
Embedding
Quality
UMLS
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Summary:Embeddings are fundamental resources often reused for building intelligent systems in the biomedical context. As a result, evaluating the quality of previously trained embeddings and ensuring they cover the desired information is critical for the success of applications. This paper proposes a new evaluation methodology to test the coverage of embeddings against a targetted domain of interest. It defines measures to assess the terminology, similarity, and analogy coverage, which are core aspects of the embeddings. Then, it discusses the experimentation carried out on existing biomedical embeddings in the specific context of pulmonary diseases. The proposed methodology and measures are general and may be applied to any application domain.
ISSN:2405-8440
2405-8440
DOI:10.1016/j.heliyon.2023.e16818