Automatic Posology Structuration : What role for LLMs?
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| author | Bobkova, Natalia Zanella-Calzada, Laura Tafoughalt, Anyes Teboul, Raphaël Plesse, François Gaschi, Félix |
| author_facet | Bobkova, Natalia Zanella-Calzada, Laura Tafoughalt, Anyes Teboul, Raphaël Plesse, François Gaschi, Félix |
| contents | Automatically structuring posology instructions is essential for improving medication safety and enabling clinical decision support. In French prescriptions, these instructions are often ambiguous, irregular, or colloquial, limiting the effectiveness of classic ML pipelines. We explore the use of Large Language Models (LLMs) to convert free-text posologies into structured formats, comparing prompt-based methods and fine-tuning against a "pre-LLM" system based on Named Entity Recognition and Linking (NERL). Our results show that while prompting improves performance, only fine-tuned LLMs match the accuracy of the baseline. Through error analysis, we observe complementary strengths: NERL offers structural precision, while LLMs better handle semantic nuances. Based on this, we propose a hybrid pipeline that routes low-confidence cases from NERL (<0.8) to the LLM, selecting outputs based on confidence scores. This strategy achieves 91% structuration accuracy while minimizing latency and compute. Our results show that this hybrid approach improves structuration accuracy while limiting computational cost, offering a scalable solution for real-world clinical use. |
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| spellingShingle | Automatic Posology Structuration : What role for LLMs? Bobkova, Natalia Zanella-Calzada, Laura Tafoughalt, Anyes Teboul, Raphaël Plesse, François Gaschi, Félix Computation and Language Artificial Intelligence Automatically structuring posology instructions is essential for improving medication safety and enabling clinical decision support. In French prescriptions, these instructions are often ambiguous, irregular, or colloquial, limiting the effectiveness of classic ML pipelines. We explore the use of Large Language Models (LLMs) to convert free-text posologies into structured formats, comparing prompt-based methods and fine-tuning against a "pre-LLM" system based on Named Entity Recognition and Linking (NERL). Our results show that while prompting improves performance, only fine-tuned LLMs match the accuracy of the baseline. Through error analysis, we observe complementary strengths: NERL offers structural precision, while LLMs better handle semantic nuances. Based on this, we propose a hybrid pipeline that routes low-confidence cases from NERL (<0.8) to the LLM, selecting outputs based on confidence scores. This strategy achieves 91% structuration accuracy while minimizing latency and compute. Our results show that this hybrid approach improves structuration accuracy while limiting computational cost, offering a scalable solution for real-world clinical use. |
| title | Automatic Posology Structuration : What role for LLMs? |
| topic | Computation and Language Artificial Intelligence |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.19525 |