Title | A multimodal approach for few-shot biomedical named entity recognition in low-resource languages. |
Publication Type | Journal Article |
Year of Publication | 2025 |
Authors | Chen J, Su L, Li Y, Lin M, Peng Y, Sun C |
Journal | J Biomed Inform |
Volume | 161 |
Pagination | 104754 |
Date Published | 2025 Jan |
ISSN | 1532-0480 |
Keywords | Algorithms, Biomedical Research, Humans, Language, Natural Language Processing |
Abstract | In this study, we revisit named entity recognition (NER) in the biomedical domain from a multimodal perspective, with a particular focus on applications in low-resource languages. Existing research primarily relies on unimodal methods for NER, which limits the potential for capturing diverse information. To address this limitation, we propose a novel method that integrates a cross-modal generation module to transform unimodal data into multimodal data, thereby enabling the use of enriched multimodal information for NER. Additionally, we design a cross-modal filtering module to mitigate the adverse effects of text-image mismatches in multimodal NER. We validate our proposed method on two biomedical datasets specifically curated for low-resource languages. Experimental results demonstrate that our method significantly enhances the performance of NER, highlighting its effectiveness and potential for broader applications in biomedical research and low-resource language contexts. |
DOI | 10.1016/j.jbi.2024.104754 |
Alternate Journal | J Biomed Inform |
PubMed ID | 39622400 |