Patient-friendly Clinical Notes: Towards a new Text Simplification Dataset
Jan Trienes, Jörg Schlötterer, Hans‐Ulrich Schildhaus, Christin Seifert · 2022
Automatic text simplification can help patients to better understand their own clinical notes.A major hurdle for the development of clinical text simplification methods is the lack of high quality resources.We report ongoing efforts in creating a parallel dataset of professionally simplified clinical notes.Currently, this corpus consists of 851 document-level simplifications of German pathology reports.We highlight characteristics of this dataset and establish first baselines for paragraph-level simplification.