Medical text representation is crucial for medical natural language processing (NLP) applications. Bidirectional encoder representations from transformers (BERT) has achieved the state-of-the-art performance in general domain text representation. However, limited by the design of the pretraining task and the frequency of knowledge occurrence, it lacks understanding of medical knowledge. To overcome these problems, we proposed a selective knowledge extraction and fusion framework to enhance medical text representation. In the knowledge extraction phase, we first designed a semantic importance evaluation metric to extract internal knowledge. We then used large language models (LLMs) to extract external knowledge from systematized nomenclature of medicine clinical term (SNOMED CT). In the knowledge fusion phase, we utilized an attention mechanism and Siamese network to integrate internal knowledge and external knowledge. Extracting knowledge through large language models (LLMs) and integrating it into five different types of BERT models, we achieved significant improvements in the task of pulmonary disease text classification.
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Tsinghua Science and Technology 2026, 31(1): 418-429
Published: 25 August 2025
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