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Social media can be an important source of information facilitating the detection of new safety signals in pharmacovigilance. Various approaches have investigated the analysis of social media data using AI such as NLP techniques for…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-03-08 Valentin Roche , Jean-Philippe Robert , Hanan Salam

Electronic health record (EHR) systems present clinicians with vast repositories of clinical information, creating a significant cognitive burden where critical details are easily overlooked. While Large Language Models (LLMs) offer…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Samuel Thio , Matthew Lewis , Spiros Denaxas , Richard JB Dobson

The expansion of retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) into multimodal domains has intensified the challenge for processing complex visual documents, such as financial reports. While page-level chunking and retrieval is a natural starting…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-02 Zhengren Wang , Dongsheng Ma , Huaping Zhong , Jiayu Li , Wentao Zhang , Bin Wang , Conghui He

Laboratory testing and medication prescription are two of the most important routines in daily clinical practice. Developing an artificial intelligence system that can automatically make lab test imputations and medication recommendations…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-02-07 Chengsheng Mao , Liang Yao , Yuan Luo

Generating long and coherent reports to describe medical images poses challenges to bridging visual patterns with informative human linguistic descriptions. We propose a novel Hybrid Retrieval-Generation Reinforced Agent (HRGR-Agent) which…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-11-27 Christy Y. Li , Xiaodan Liang , Zhiting Hu , Eric P. Xing

Complex or co-existing diseases are commonly treated using drug combinations, which can lead to higher risk of adverse side effects. The detection of polypharmacy side effects is usually done in Phase IV clinical trials, but there are still…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-05-03 Andreea Deac , Yu-Hsiang Huang , Petar Veličković , Pietro Liò , Jian Tang

We developed an online framework that can automatically pair two crowd-sourced participants, prompt them to follow a research protocol, and record their audio and video on a remote server. The framework comprises two web applications: an…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2017-09-11 Tayan Sen , Md Kamrul Hasan , Zach Teicher , M. Ehsan Hoque

Clinical auditing requires codified data for aggregation and analysis of patterns. However in the medical domain obtaining structured data can be difficult as the most natural, expressive and comprehensive way to record a clinical encounter…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2016-06-14 Sedigheh Khademi , Christopher Palmer , Pari Delir Haghighi , Philip Lewis , Frada Burstein

Large language models (LLMs) have demonstrated strong performance and rapid progress in a wide range of medical reasoning tasks. However, their sequential autoregressive decoding forces inherently parallel clinical reasoning, such as…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-17 Jianwen Chen , Xinyu Yang , Peng Xia , Arian Azarang , Yueh Z Lee , Gang Li , Hongtu Zhu , Yun Li , Beidi Chen , Huaxiu Yao

Retrieval-augmented generation have become central in natural language processing due to their efficacy in generating factual content. While traditional methods employ single-time retrieval, more recent approaches have shifted towards…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-02-20 Yujia Zhou , Zheng Liu , Jiajie Jin , Jian-Yun Nie , Zhicheng Dou

Drug-drug interaction(DDI) prediction is an important task in the medical health machine learning community. This study presents a new method, multi-view graph contrastive representation learning for drug-drug interaction prediction,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-04-13 Yingheng Wang , Yaosen Min , Xin Chen , Ji Wu

Content moderation for large language models (LLMs) remains a significant challenge, requiring flexible and adaptable solutions that can quickly respond to emerging threats. This paper introduces Retrieval Augmented Rejection (RAR), a novel…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-05-21 Tommaso Mario Buonocore , Enea Parimbelli

Adverse drug reaction (ADR) detection is an essential task in the medical field, as ADRs have a gravely detrimental impact on patients' health and the healthcare system. Due to a large number of people sharing information on social media…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-08-21 Yunzhi Qiu , Xiaokun Zhang , Weiwei Wang , Tongxuan Zhang , Bo Xu , Hongfei Lin

A ubiquitous task in processing electronic medical data is the assignment of standardized codes representing diagnoses and/or procedures to free-text documents such as medical reports. This is a difficult natural language processing task…

Multilingual automatic speech recognition (ASR) in the medical domain serves as a foundational task for various downstream applications such as speech translation, spoken language understanding, and voice-activated assistants. This…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-05-16 Khai Le-Duc , Phuc Phan , Tan-Hanh Pham , Bach Phan Tat , Minh-Huong Ngo , Chris Ngo , Thanh Nguyen-Tang , Truong-Son Hy

This paper presents our approach for task 2 and task 3 of Social Media Mining for Health (SMM4H) 2020 shared tasks. In task 2, we have to differentiate adverse drug reaction (ADR) tweets from nonADR tweets and is treated as binary…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-06-30 Katikapalli Subramanyam Kalyan , S. Sangeetha

We aim to develop a retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) framework that answers questions over a corpus of visually-rich documents presented in mixed modalities (e.g., charts, tables) and diverse formats (e.g., PDF, PPTX). In this paper, we…

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The production of digital documents has been growing rapidly in academic, business, and health environments, presenting new challenges in the efficient extraction and analysis of unstructured information. This work investigates the use of…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-07-30 Daniel Meireles do Rego

To efficiently combat the spread of LLM-generated misinformation, we present RADAR, a Retrieval-Augmented Detector with Adversarial Refinement for robust fake news detection. Our approach employs a generator that rewrites real articles with…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-03-19 Song-Duo Ma , Yi-Hung Liu , Hsin-Yu Lin , Pin-Yu Chen , Hong-Yan Huang , Shau-Yung Hsu , Yun-Nung Chen

Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) utilizes external knowledge to augment Large Language Models' (LLMs) reliability. For flexibility, agentic RAG employs autonomous, multi-round retrieval and reasoning to resolve queries. Although recent…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-11-10 Chao Zhang , Yuhao Wang , Derong Xu , Haoxin Zhang , Yuanjie Lyu , Yuhao Chen , Shuochen Liu , Tong Xu , Xiangyu Zhao , Yan Gao , Yao Hu , Enhong Chen