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HealthBranches is a novel benchmark dataset for medical Question-Answering (Q&A), specifically designed to evaluate complex reasoning in Large Language Models (LLMs). This dataset is generated through a semi-automated pipeline that…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-08-12 Cristian Cosentino , Annamaria Defilippo , Marco Dossena , Christopher Irwin , Sara Joubbi , Pietro Liò

The exponential growth in scholarly publications necessitates advanced tools for efficient article retrieval, especially in interdisciplinary fields where diverse terminologies are used to describe similar research. Traditional…

This paper introduces a system that integrates large language models (LLMs) into the clinical trial retrieval process, enhancing the effectiveness of matching patients with eligible trials while maintaining information privacy and allowing…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-11-01 Georgios Peikos , Pranav Kasela , Gabriella Pasi

In the medical field, the limited availability of large-scale datasets and labor-intensive annotation processes hinder the performance of deep models. Diffusion-based generative augmentation approaches present a promising solution to this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-19 Xinrui Zhou , Yuhao Huang , Haoran Dou , Shijing Chen , Ao Chang , Jia Liu , Weiran Long , Jian Zheng , Erjiao Xu , Jie Ren , Alejandro F. Frangi , Ruobing Huang , Jun Cheng , Xiaomeng Li , Wufeng Xue , Dong Ni

Traditional keyphrase prediction methods predict a single set of keyphrases per document, failing to cater to the diverse needs of users and downstream applications. To bridge the gap, we introduce on-demand keyphrase generation, a novel…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-10-07 Di Wu , Xiaoxian Shen , Kai-Wei Chang

Background: Computational drug repurposing is a cost- and time-efficient approach that aims to identify new therapeutic targets or diseases (indications) of existing drugs/compounds. It is especially critical for emerging and/or orphan…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2023-04-26 Chunyu Ma , Zhihan Zhou , Han Liu , David Koslicki

Generative retrieval is an emerging approach in information retrieval that generates identifiers (IDs) of target data based on a query, providing an efficient alternative to traditional embedding-based retrieval methods. However, existing…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-06-09 Sungyeon Kim , Xinliang Zhu , Xiaofan Lin , Muhammet Bastan , Douglas Gray , Suha Kwak

Ontology alignment is the task of identifying semantically equivalent entities from two given ontologies. Different ontologies have different representations of the same entity, resulting in a need to de-duplicate entities when merging…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-06-22 Lucy Lu Wang , Chandra Bhagavatula , Mark Neumann , Kyle Lo , Chris Wilhelm , Waleed Ammar

Objectives: Text categorization has been used in biomedical informatics for identifying documents containing relevant topics of interest. We developed a simple method that uses a chi-square-based scoring function to determine the likelihood…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2018-04-03 Andrej Kastrin , Borut Peterlin , Dimitar Hristovski

Motivation: Ontologies are widely used in biology for data annotation, integration, and analysis. In addition to formally structured axioms, ontologies contain meta-data in the form of annotation axioms which provide valuable pieces of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-05-01 Fatima Zohra Smaili , Xin Gao , Robert Hoehndorf

Traditional information retrieval systems represent documents and queries by keyword sets. However, the content of a document or a query is mainly defined by both keywords and named entities occurring in it. Named entities have ontological…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2018-07-17 Vuong M. Ngo , Tru H. Cao

Advanced bioimaging technologies have enabled the large-scale acquisition of multidimensional data, yet effective metadata management and interoperability remain significant challenges. To address these issues, we propose a new…

Digital Libraries · Computer Science 2025-08-05 Yuki Yamagata , Koji Kyoda , Hiroya Itoga , Emi Fujisawa , Shuichi Onami

Currently, most people use PubMed to search the MEDLINE database, an important bibliographical information source for life science and biomedical information. However, PubMed has some drawbacks that make it difficult to find relevant…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2015-09-01 James Z. Wang , Yuanyuan Zhang , Liang Dong , Lin Li , Pradip K Srimani , Philip S. Yu

Significant efforts have been expended in the research and development of a database management system (DBMS) that has a wide range of applications for managing an enormous collection of multisource, heterogeneous, complex, or growing data.…

Databases · Computer Science 2021-04-01 Chunkai Zhang , Zilin Du , Quanjian Dai , Wensheng Gan , Jian Weng , Philip S. Yu

Question answering (QA) has achieved promising progress recently. However, answering a question in real-world scenarios like the medical domain is still challenging, due to the requirement of external knowledge and the insufficient quantity…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2019-12-10 Sheng Shen , Yaliang Li , Nan Du , Xian Wu , Yusheng Xie , Shen Ge , Tao Yang , Kai Wang , Xingzheng Liang , Wei Fan

Large language models (LLMs) offer new opportunities for constructing knowledge graphs (KGs) from unstructured clinical narratives. However, existing approaches often rely on structured inputs and lack robust validation of factual accuracy…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-01-06 Udiptaman Das , Krishnasai B. Atmakuri , Duy Ho , Chi Lee , Yugyung Lee

Deploying Large Language Models (LLMs) for healthcare question answering requires robust methods to ensure accuracy and reliability. This work introduces Query-Based Retrieval Augmented Generation (QB-RAG), a framework for enhancing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-31 Eric Yang , Jonathan Amar , Jong Ha Lee , Bhawesh Kumar , Yugang Jia

Much of information sits in an unprecedented amount of text data. Managing allocation of these large scale text data is an important problem for many areas. Topic modeling performs well in this problem. The traditional generative models…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2015-11-30 Guorui Zhou , Guang Chen

The objective of automated Question Answering (QA) systems is to provide answers to user queries in a time efficient manner. The answers are usually found in either databases (or knowledge bases) or a collection of documents commonly…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-11-12 Krishanu Das Baksi

Ontological queries are evaluated against an ontology rather than directly on a database. The evaluation and optimization of such queries is an intriguing new problem for database research. In this paper we discuss two important aspects of…

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