Dutch Metaphor Extraction from Cancer Patients' Interviews and Forum Data using LLMs and Human in the Loop

Fuente: arXiv
Guardado en:
Detalles Bibliográficos
Autores principales: Han, Lifeng, Lindevelt, David, Puts, Sander, van Mulligen, Erik, Verberne, Suzan
Formato: Preprint
Publicado: 2025
Materias:
Acceso en línea:
Etiquetas: Agregar Etiqueta
Sin Etiquetas, Sea el primero en etiquetar este registro!
_version_ 1866911484175450112
author Han, Lifeng
Lindevelt, David
Puts, Sander
van Mulligen, Erik
Verberne, Suzan
author_facet Han, Lifeng
Lindevelt, David
Puts, Sander
van Mulligen, Erik
Verberne, Suzan
contents Metaphors and metaphorical language (MLs) play an important role in healthcare communication between clinicians, patients, and patients' family members. In this work, we focus on Dutch language data from cancer patients. We extract metaphors used by patients using two data sources: (1) cancer patient storytelling interview data and (2) online forum data, including patients' posts, comments, and questions to professionals. We investigate how current state-of-the-art large language models (LLMs) perform on this task by exploring different prompting strategies such as chain of thought reasoning, few-shot learning, and self-prompting. With a human-in-the-loop setup, we verify the extracted metaphors and compile the outputs into a corpus named HealthQuote.NL. We believe the extracted metaphors can support better patient care, for example shared decision making, improved communication between patients and clinicians, and enhanced patient health literacy. They can also inform the design of personalized care pathways. We share prompts and related resources at https://github.com/4dpicture/HealthQuote.NL
format Preprint
id arxiv_https___arxiv_org_abs_2511_06427
institution arXiv
publishDate 2025
record_format arxiv
spellingShingle Dutch Metaphor Extraction from Cancer Patients' Interviews and Forum Data using LLMs and Human in the Loop
Han, Lifeng
Lindevelt, David
Puts, Sander
van Mulligen, Erik
Verberne, Suzan
Computation and Language
Computers and Society
Metaphors and metaphorical language (MLs) play an important role in healthcare communication between clinicians, patients, and patients' family members. In this work, we focus on Dutch language data from cancer patients. We extract metaphors used by patients using two data sources: (1) cancer patient storytelling interview data and (2) online forum data, including patients' posts, comments, and questions to professionals. We investigate how current state-of-the-art large language models (LLMs) perform on this task by exploring different prompting strategies such as chain of thought reasoning, few-shot learning, and self-prompting. With a human-in-the-loop setup, we verify the extracted metaphors and compile the outputs into a corpus named HealthQuote.NL. We believe the extracted metaphors can support better patient care, for example shared decision making, improved communication between patients and clinicians, and enhanced patient health literacy. They can also inform the design of personalized care pathways. We share prompts and related resources at https://github.com/4dpicture/HealthQuote.NL
title Dutch Metaphor Extraction from Cancer Patients' Interviews and Forum Data using LLMs and Human in the Loop
topic Computation and Language
Computers and Society
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.06427