arXiv:2511.15211cs.CLcs.AI2025-11被引 1

用多智能体协作实现零样本临床实体识别,不依赖标注数据也能达接近监督模型效果。

OEMA: Ontology-Enhanced Multi-Agent Collaboration Framework for Zero-Shot Clinical Named Entity Recognition

  • 三智能体协同:自动生成候选例子、用SNOMED CT筛选相关项、结合实体描述提升推理。
  • 在MTSamples和VAERS上,精确匹配下达当前最佳,相关匹配下媲美有监督的BioClinicalBERT。
  • 适合临床文本挖掘、医疗AI研发人员,尤其关注低资源场景下的实体识别应用。

随着电子健康记录中非结构化临床文本的快速增长,临床命名实体识别(NER)成为提取医学信息的关键技术。传统监督模型如CRF和BioClinicalBERT存在标注成本高的问题。基于大语言模型的零样本NER虽降低了对标注数据的依赖,但在示例选择与任务粒度对齐、提示设计与自优化框架融合方面仍面临挑战。为此,我们提出OEMA,一种基于多智能体协作的新型零样本临床NER框架。OEMA包含三个核心组件:(1) 自注释器,自主生成候选实例;(2) 判别器,利用SNOMED CT按临床相关性筛选词级实例;(3) 预测器,结合实体类型描述提升推理准确性。在两个基准数据集MTSamples和VAERS上的实验结果表明,OEMA在精确匹配评估下达到领先性能。此外,在相关匹配标准下,其表现可媲美有监督的BioClinicalBERT模型,显著优于传统CRF方法。OEMA提升了零样本临床NER效果,在相关匹配标准下接近有监督性能。未来工作将聚焦持续学习与开放域适应,以拓展其在临床自然语言处理中的适用性。

原文摘要 · Abstract (English)

With the rapid expansion of unstructured clinical texts in electronic health records (EHRs), clinical named entity recognition (NER) has become a crucial technique for extracting medical information. However, traditional supervised models such as CRF and BioClinicalBERT suffer from high annotation costs. Although zero-shot NER based on large language models (LLMs) reduces the dependency on labeled data, challenges remain in aligning example selection with task granularity and effectively integrating prompt design with self-improvement frameworks. To address these limitations, we propose OEMA, a novel zero-shot clinical NER framework based on multi-agent collaboration. OEMA consists of three core components: (1) a self-annotator that autonomously generates candidate examples; (2) a discriminator that leverages SNOMED CT to filter token-level examples by clinical relevance; and (3) a predictor that incorporates entity-type descriptions to enhance inference accuracy. Experimental results on two benchmark datasets, MTSamples and VAERS, demonstrate that OEMA achieves state-of-the-art performance under exact-match evaluation. Moreover, under related-match criteria, OEMA performs comparably to the supervised BioClinicalBERT model while significantly outperforming the traditional CRF method. OEMA improves zero-shot clinical NER, achieving near-supervised performance under related-match criteria. Future work will focus on continual learning and open-domain adaptation to expand its applicability in clinical NLP.

临床NLP零样本学习多智能体实体识别

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