Causality extraction from medical text using Large Language Models (LLMs)
This work addresses causality extraction for medical professionals, but it is incremental as it applies existing methods to a new domain.
The study tackled causality extraction from medical texts, specifically Clinical Practice Guidelines for gestational diabetes, and found that BioBERT outperformed other models including GPT-4 and LLAMA2 with an average F1-score of 0.72.
This study explores the potential of natural language models, including large language models, to extract causal relations from medical texts, specifically from Clinical Practice Guidelines (CPGs). The outcomes causality extraction from Clinical Practice Guidelines for gestational diabetes are presented, marking a first in the field. We report on a set of experiments using variants of BERT (BioBERT, DistilBERT, and BERT) and using Large Language Models (LLMs), namely GPT-4 and LLAMA2. Our experiments show that BioBERT performed better than other models, including the Large Language Models, with an average F1-score of 0.72. GPT-4 and LLAMA2 results show similar performance but less consistency. We also release the code and an annotated a corpus of causal statements within the Clinical Practice Guidelines for gestational diabetes.