EriBERTa: A Bilingual Pre-Trained Language Model for Clinical Natural
  Language Processing
Iker de la Iglesia Aitziber Atutxa Koldo Gojenola Ander Barrena
The utilization of clinical reports for various secondary purposes, including
health research and treatment monitoring, is crucial for enhancing patient
care. Natural Language Processing (NLP) tools have emerged as valuable assets
for extracting and processing relevant information from these reports. However,
the availability of specialized language models for the clinical domain in
Spanish has been limited.
  In this paper, we introduce EriBERTa, a bilingual domain-specific language
model pre-trained on extensive medical and clinical corpora. We demonstrate
that EriBERTa outperforms previous Spanish language models in the clinical
domain, showcasing its superior capabilities in understanding medical texts and
extracting meaningful information. Moreover, EriBERTa exhibits promising
transfer learning abilities, allowing for knowledge transfer from one language
to another. This aspect is particularly beneficial given the scarcity of
Spanish clinical data.