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This study introduces Ascle, a new natural language processing (NLP) toolkit for biomedical research, offering advanced text generation and data processing capabilities. Ascle enhances medical text analysis and generation for researchers and clinicians.

Keywords:
deep learninggenerative artificial intelligencehealthcarelarge language modelsmachine learningnatural language processingretrieval-augmented generation

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Area of Science:

  • Biomedical Informatics
  • Natural Language Processing

Background:

  • Medical texts present unique challenges for manual curation.
  • Existing natural language processing (NLP) toolkits lack text generation capabilities.
  • There is a need for integrated, user-friendly NLP solutions in the biomedical domain.

Purpose of the Study:

  • Develop and evaluate Ascle, an all-in-one NLP toolkit for biomedical researchers and clinical staff.
  • Introduce novel generative functions including question-answering, summarization, simplification, and machine translation.
  • Integrate essential NLP functions and clinical database query capabilities into a single platform.

Main Methods:

  • Fine-tuned 32 domain-specific language models evaluated on 27 benchmarks.
  • Developed a retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) framework with a medical knowledge graph for question-answering.
  • Conducted physician validation to assess the quality of generated content.

Main Results:

  • Fine-tuned models improved machine translation by 20.27 BLEU score.
  • RAG framework increased ROUGE-L score by 18% for question-answering.
  • Physician validation yielded high scores for readability (4.95/5) and relevancy (4.43/5).

Conclusions:

  • Ascle is a user-friendly NLP toolkit for medical text generation.
  • The toolkit offers advanced generative and essential NLP functions.
  • All code and models are publicly available, promoting accessibility and further research.