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The ability to automatically generate accurate protocols for scientific experiments would represent a major step towards the automation of science. Large Language Models (LLMs) have impressive capabilities on a wide range of tasks, such as…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-10-17 Odhran O'Donoghue , Aleksandar Shtedritski , John Ginger , Ralph Abboud , Ali Essa Ghareeb , Justin Booth , Samuel G Rodriques

Retrieved documents containing noise will hinder RAG from detecting answer clues and make the inference process slow and expensive. Therefore, context compression is necessary to enhance its accuracy and efficiency. Existing context…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-04-28 Qianchi Zhang , Hainan Zhang , Liang Pang , Hongwei Zheng , Zhiming Zheng

In high-stakes information domains such as healthcare, where large language models (LLMs) can produce hallucinations or misinformation, retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) has been proposed as a mitigation strategy, grounding model outputs…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-04-07 Saeedeh Javadi , Sara Mirabi , Manan Gangar , Bahadorreza Ofoghi

Text detoxification has the potential to mitigate the harms of toxicity by rephrasing text to remove offensive meaning, but subtle toxicity remains challenging to tackle. We introduce MaRCo, a detoxification algorithm that combines…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-05-30 Skyler Hallinan , Alisa Liu , Yejin Choi , Maarten Sap

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

Large Language Models (LLMs) have shown strong potential in complex medical reasoning yet face diminishing gains under inference scaling laws. While existing studies augment LLMs with various knowledge types, it remains unclear how…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-02-10 Yu Zhao , Hao Guan , Yongcheng Jing , Ying Zhang , Dacheng Tao

Clinical coding is the task of assigning a set of alphanumeric codes, referred to as ICD (International Classification of Diseases), to a medical event based on the context captured in a clinical narrative. The latest version of ICD,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-03-11 Cansu Sen , Bingyang Ye , Javed Aslam , Amir Tahmasebi

Writing reports by analyzing medical images is error-prone for inexperienced practitioners and time consuming for experienced ones. In this work, we present RepsNet that adapts pre-trained vision and language models to interpret medical…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-28 Ajay Kumar Tanwani , Joelle Barral , Daniel Freedman

Electronic healthcare records are vital for patient safety as they document conditions, plans, and procedures in both free text and medical codes. Language models have significantly enhanced the processing of such records, streamlining…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-01 Joakim Edin , Maria Maistro , Lars Maaløe , Lasse Borgholt , Jakob D. Havtorn , Tuukka Ruotsalo

In pre-market drug safety review, grouping related adverse event terms into SMQs or OCMQs is critical for signal detection. We assess the performance of SafeTerm Automated Medical Query (AMQ) on MedDRA SMQs. The AMQ is a novel quantitative…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-12-09 Francois Vandenhende , Anna Georgiou , Michalis Georgiou , Theodoros Psaras , Ellie Karekla , Elena Hadjicosta

Adverse drug reactions (ADRs) are big concern for public health. ADRs are one of most common causes to withdraw some drugs from markets. Now two major methods for detecting ADRs are spontaneous reporting system (SRS), and prescription event…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2013-09-02 Yihui Liu , Uwe Aickelin

In the last decade, an increasing number of users have started reporting Adverse Drug Events (ADE) on social media platforms, blogs, and health forums. Given the large volume of reports, pharmacovigilance has focused on ways to use Natural…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-09-08 Simone Scaboro , Beatrice Portelli , Emmanuele Chersoni , Enrico Santus , Giuseppe Serra

In natural language processing applied to the clinical domain, utilizing large language models has emerged as a promising avenue for error detection and correction on clinical notes, a knowledge-intensive task for which annotated data is…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-04-25 Jean-Philippe Corbeil

The accurate extraction of medical orders from doctor-patient conversations is a critical task for reducing clinical documentation burdens and ensuring patient safety. This paper details our team submission to the MEDIQA-OE-2025 Shared…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-11-14 Abhinand Balachandran , Bavana Durgapraveen , Gowsikkan Sikkan Sudhagar , Vidhya Varshany J S , Sriram Rajkumar

Large Language Models (LLMs) have demonstrated significant potential in medical Question Answering (QA), yet they remain prone to hallucinations and ungrounded reasoning, limiting their reliability in high-stakes clinical scenarios. While…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-01-09 Jessica Ryan , Alexander I. Gumilang , Robert Wiliam , Derwin Suhartono

Post--marketing pharmacovigilance is essential for identifying adverse drug reactions (ADRs) that elude detection during pre--marketing clinical trials. This study explores a novel approach that integrates an adverse event (AE) ontology…

In sensitive domains, Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) must be interpretable and robust because errors do not just mislead, they invite lawsuits, undermine scholarly credibility, and breach compliance. Stakeholders require traceable…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Yash Saxena , Ankur Padia , Mandar S Chaudhary , Kalpa Gunaratna , Srinivasan Parthasarathy , Manas Gaur

Metaverse platforms are rapidly evolving to provide immersive spaces for user interaction and content creation. However, the generation of dynamic and interactive 3D objects remains challenging due to the need for advanced 3D modeling and…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-05-01 Ryutaro Kurai , Takefumi Hiraki , Yuichi Hiroi , Yutaro Hirao , Monica Perusquía-Hernández , Hideaki Uchiyama , Kiyoshi Kiyokawa

The rising rate of drug-related deaths in the United States, largely driven by fentanyl, requires timely and accurate surveillance. However, critical overdose data are often buried in free-text coroner reports, leading to delays and…

Considerable effort has been dedicated to mitigating toxicity, but existing methods often require drastic modifications to model parameters or the use of computationally intensive auxiliary models. Furthermore, previous approaches have…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-10-12 Luiza Pozzobon , Beyza Ermis , Patrick Lewis , Sara Hooker