no code implementations • 14 Nov 2023 • Elliot Schumacher, Daniel Rosenthal, Varun Nair, Luladay Price, Geoffrey Tso, Anitha Kannan
In safety-critical domains such as medicine, more rigorous evaluation is required, especially given the potential for LLMs to omit important information in the resulting summary.
no code implementations • 10 May 2023 • Varun Nair, Elliot Schumacher, Anitha Kannan
A medical provider's summary of a patient visit serves several critical purposes, including clinical decision-making, facilitating hand-offs between providers, and as a reference for the patient.
no code implementations • 27 Apr 2023 • Albert Yu Sun, Varun Nair, Elliot Schumacher, Anitha Kannan
We use CONSCENDI to exhaustively generate training data with two key LLM-powered components: scenario-augmented generation and contrastive training examples.
1 code implementation • 30 Mar 2023 • Varun Nair, Elliot Schumacher, Geoffrey Tso, Anitha Kannan
Large language models (LLMs) have emerged as valuable tools for many natural language understanding tasks.
no code implementations • 16 Apr 2021 • Elliot Schumacher, James Mayfield, Mark Dredze
Entity linking -- the task of identifying references in free text to relevant knowledge base representations -- often focuses on single languages.
1 code implementation • Findings (ACL) 2021 • Elliot Schumacher, James Mayfield, Mark Dredze
We find that the multilingual ability of BERT leads to robust performance in monolingual and multilingual settings.
no code implementations • ACL 2020 • Elliot Schumacher, Andriy Mulyar, Mark Dredze
We propose an approach to concept linking that leverages recent work in contextualized neural models, such as ELMo (Peters et al. 2018), which create a token representation that integrates the surrounding context of the mention and concept name.
2 code implementations • 30 Oct 2019 • Andriy Mulyar, Elliot Schumacher, Masoud Rouhizadeh, Mark Dredze
Clinical notes contain an extensive record of a patient's health status, such as smoking status or the presence of heart conditions.
Ranked #1 on Clinical Note Phenotyping on I2B2 2006: Smoking
no code implementations • AKBC 2019 • Elliot Schumacher, Mark Dredze
Linking mentions of medical concepts in a clinical note to a concept in an ontology enables a variety of tasks that rely on understanding the content of a medical record, such as identifying patient populations and decision support.
no code implementations • EMNLP 2016 • Elliot Schumacher, Maxine Eskenazi, Gwen Frishkoff, Kevyn Collins-Thompson
The problem of accurately predicting relative reading difficulty across a set of sentences arises in a number of important natural language applications, such as finding and curating effective usage examples for intelligent language tutoring systems.
no code implementations • 18 Mar 2016 • Elliot Schumacher, Maxine Eskenazi
Readability is defined as the reading level of the speech from grade 1 to grade 12.