MedBIT is built on top of
BioBIT, further pretrained on a corpus of medical textbooks, either directly written by Italian authors or translated by human professional translators, used in formal medical doctors’ education and specialized training. The size of this corpus amounts to 100 MB of data.
These comprehensive collections of medical concepts can impact the encoding of biomedical knowledge in language models, with the advantage of being natively available in Italian, and not being translated. More details in the paper.
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