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Large Language Models · End Term · 21 Dec 2025 · September 2025 term · Set 1-2

Question 5: A hospital wants to extract disease mentions and treatmen…

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A hospital wants to extract disease mentions and treatment plans from unstructured clinical notes. Notes use heavy abbreviations like ``pt dx w/ CAD, rx aspirin'' For extracting specific disease names from text, which task should you fine-tune BERT for?

  1. A

    Masked Language Modeling

  2. B

    Next Sentence Prediction

  3. C

    Named Entity Recognition

  4. D

    Text generation

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Correct answer

  • C

    Named Entity Recognition

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Question 5 of 25 in the IIT Madras BS Large Language Models (LLM) End Term paper sat on 21 Dec 2025, in the September 2025 term (Large Language Models 21 Dec 25). It carries 2 marks.

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