The Signal in the Noise: An Auditable Reliability Layer for Biomedical Text Classification

Abstract

arXiv:2608.28595v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Biomedical NLP pipelines routinely presuppose clean input text, yet large-scale corpora assembled through automated PDF parsing harbour pervasive OCR-like artifacts, token splits and merges, hyphenation remnants, and character-level corruption, that systematically erode lexical evidence and degrade downstream classifiers. We introduce a conservative, fully auditable spell-correction reliability layer conceived as a safety-oriented preprocessing mod