README.md

MedJEx

This repo is the official implementation of our paper "MedJEx: A Medical Jargon Extraction Model with Wiki's Hyperlink Span and Contextualized Masked Language Model Score" accepted in EMNLP 2022.

Usage

1. First install all requirements

   $ pip install -r requirements.txt

2. Then, download the MedCAT binary file from "https://github.com/CogStack/MedCAT"

3. Update "UMLS_MedCAT_PATH" to your file path.

4. Run the ipynb file

Citation

@inproceedings{kwon-etal-2022-medjex,
title = "{M}ed{JE}x: A Medical Jargon Extraction Model with {W}iki{'}s Hyperlink Span and Contextualized Masked Language Model Score",
author = "Kwon, Sunjae  and
  Yao, Zonghai  and
  Jordan, Harmon  and
  Levy, David  and
  Corner, Brian  and
  Yu, Hong",
booktitle = "Proceedings of the 2022 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing",
month = dec,
year = "2022",
address = "Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates",
publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
url = "https://aclanthology.org/2022.emnlp-main.805",
pages = "11733--11751"}