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In Natural Language Processing (NLP), Machine Reading Comprehension (MRC) is the task of answering a question based on a given context. To handle questions in the medical domain, modern language models such as BioBERT, SciBERT and even…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-12-16 Saptarshi Sengupta , Connor Heaton , Suhan Cui , Soumalya Sarkar , Prasenjit Mitra

This paper describes a new kind of knowledge representation and mining system which we are calling the Semantic Knowledge Graph. At its heart, the Semantic Knowledge Graph leverages an inverted index, along with a complementary uninverted…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2016-09-06 Trey Grainger , Khalifeh AlJadda , Mohammed Korayem , Andries Smith

External knowledge is often useful for natural language understanding tasks. We introduce a contextual text representation model called Conceptual-Contextual (CC) embeddings, which incorporates structured knowledge into text…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-03-13 Xiao Zhang , Dejing Dou , Ji Wu

In this paper, we investigate how semantic relations between concepts extracted from medical documents can be employed to improve the retrieval of medical literature. Semantic relations explicitly represent relatedness between concepts and…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2019-05-06 Maristella Agosti , Giorgio Maria Di Nunzio , Stefano Marchesin , Gianmaria Silvello

The Internet has revolutionized healthcare by offering medical information ubiquitously to patients via web search. The healthcare status, complex medical information needs of patients are expressed diversely and implicitly in their medical…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-10-24 Chenwei Zhang , Nan Du , Wei Fan , Yaliang Li , Chun-Ta Lu , Philip S. Yu

Research on knowledge graph embeddings has recently evolved into knowledge base embeddings, where the goal is not only to map facts into vector spaces but also constrain the models so that they take into account the relevant conceptual…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-08-12 Camille Bourgaux , Ricardo Guimarães , Raoul Koudijs , Victor Lacerda , Ana Ozaki

Given the recent advances and progress in Natural Language Processing (NLP), extraction of semantic relationships has been at the top of the research agenda in the last few years. This work has been mainly motivated by the fact that…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-04-30 Epaminondas Kapetanios , Vijayan Sugumaran , Anastassia Angelopoulou

Information sources such as relational databases, spreadsheets, XML, JSON, and Web APIs contain a tremendous amount of structured data that can be leveraged to build and augment knowledge graphs. However, they rarely provide a semantic…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2016-01-19 Mohsen Taheriyan , Craig A. Knoblock , Pedro Szekely , Jose Luis Ambite

Sentence embeddings encode natural language sentences as low-dimensional dense vectors. A great deal of effort has been put into using sentence embeddings to improve several important natural language processing tasks. Relation extraction…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-09-24 Alexander Kalinowski , Yuan An

Electronic Health Records (EHRs) and routine documentation practices play a vital role in patients' daily care, providing a holistic record of health, diagnoses, and treatment. However, complex and verbose EHR narratives overload healthcare…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-02-26 Yanjun Gao , Ruizhe Li , Emma Croxford , John Caskey , Brian W Patterson , Matthew Churpek , Timothy Miller , Dmitriy Dligach , Majid Afshar

Knowledge Graphs, such as Wikidata, comprise structural and textual knowledge in order to represent knowledge. For each of the two modalities dedicated approaches for graph embedding and language models learn patterns that allow for…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-08-21 Mojtaba Nayyeri , Zihao Wang , Mst. Mahfuja Akter , Mirza Mohtashim Alam , Md Rashad Al Hasan Rony , Jens Lehmann , Steffen Staab

Knowledge graphs (KGs) of real-world facts about entities and their relationships are useful resources for a variety of natural language processing tasks. However, because knowledge graphs are typically incomplete, it is useful to perform…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-10-28 Dat Quoc Nguyen

Modern distributed decision-making systems face significant challenges arising from data heterogeneity, dynamic environments, and the need for decentralized coordination. This paper introduces the Knowledge Sharing paradigm as an innovative…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2026-02-10 Rosario Napoli , Gabriele Morabito , Antonio Celesti , Massimo Villari , Maria Fazio

Knowledge graphs are an efficient method for representing and connecting information across various concepts, useful in reasoning, question answering, and knowledge base completion tasks. They organize data by linking points, enabling…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-02-25 Saher Mohamed , Kirollos Farah , Abdelrahman Lotfy , Kareem Rizk , Abdelrahman Saeed , Shahenda Mohamed , Ghada Khouriba , Tamer Arafa

Recently, the performance of Pre-trained Language Models (PLMs) has been significantly improved by injecting knowledge facts to enhance their abilities of language understanding. For medical domains, the background knowledge sources are…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-08-23 Taolin Zhang , Zerui Cai , Chengyu Wang , Minghui Qiu , Bite Yang , Xiaofeng He

Machine learning in healthcare requires effective representation of structured medical codes, but current methods face a trade off: knowledge graph based approaches capture formal relationships but miss real world patterns, while data…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-07 Ahmed Elhussein , Paul Meddeb , Abigail Newbury , Jeanne Mirone , Martin Stoll , Gamze Gursoy

Knowledge Graphs have been one of the fundamental methods for integrating heterogeneous data sources. Integrating heterogeneous data sources is crucial, especially in the biomedical domain, where central data-driven tasks such as drug…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-12-22 Islam Akef Ebeid , Majdi Hassan , Tingyi Wanyan , Jack Roper , Abhik Seal , Ying Ding

We present a novel method for mapping unrestricted text to knowledge graph entities by framing the task as a sequence-to-sequence problem. Specifically, given the encoded state of an input text, our decoder directly predicts paths in the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-04-08 Victor Prokhorov , Mohammad Taher Pilehvar , Nigel Collier

Electronic medical records (EMRs) are stored in relational databases. It can be challenging to access the required information if the user is unfamiliar with the database schema or general database fundamentals. Hence, researchers have…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-03-24 Richard Tarbell , Kim-Kwang Raymond Choo , Glenn Dietrich , Anthony Rios

Here we study the semantic search and retrieval problem in biomedical digital libraries. First, we introduce MedGraph, a knowledge graph embedding-based method that provides semantic relevance retrieval and ranking for the biomedical…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-12-15 Islam Akef Ebeid , Elizabeth Pierce