Team Fusion@ SU@ BC8 SympTEMIST track: transformer-based approach for symptom recognition and linking
arXiv cs.CL / 4/9/2026
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Key Points
- The paper introduces a transformer-based system to perform SympTEMIST named entity recognition (NER) and entity linking (EL) for symptom data using a RoBERTa-based token classifier.
- For NER, the approach fine-tunes a RoBERTa model augmented with BiLSTM and CRF layers, leveraging an augmented training set to improve token-level entity extraction.
- For entity linking, it generates cross-lingual candidates using SapBERT XLMR-Large and ranks them by cosine similarity to entries in a knowledge base.
- The authors report that the selection of the knowledge base is the most influential factor for improving EL (and overall) accuracy.
- The work is presented as a new arXiv release, positioning it as a research-method contribution for symptom-related biomedical/NLP pipelines.
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