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+# Benchmarking transformer models with named entity recognition in clinical trial eligibility criteria 
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+Chia dataset can be downloaded here: https://figshare.com/articles/dataset/Chia_Annotated_Datasets/11855817/2
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+Facebook Research Data can be downloaded here: https://github.com/facebookresearch/Clinical-Trial-Parser/blob/master/data/ner/medical_ner.tsv
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+All the Transformer based NER models can be found here: https://github.com/uf-hobi-informatics-lab/ClinicalTransformerNER
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+Reference:
+1. Kury, Fabrício, et al. “Chia, a Large Annotated Corpus of Clinical Trial Eligibility Criteria.” Nature News, Nature Publishing Group, 27 Aug. 2020, www.nature.com/articles/s41597-020-00620-0. 
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+2. Tseo, Yitong, et al. “Information Extraction of Clinical Trial Eligibility Criteria.” ArXiv.org, 28 July 2020,  https://arxiv.org/pdf/2006.07296.pdf
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+3. Yang, Xi, et al. “Clinical Concept Extraction Using Transformers.” OUP Academic, Oxford University Press, 29 Oct. 2020, https://academic.oup.com/jamia/article/27/12/1935/5943218