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Controlling infectious diseases is a major health priority because they can spread and infect humans, thus evolving into epidemics or pandemics. Therefore, early detection of infectious diseases is a significant need, and many researchers…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-16 Eman Yahia Alqaissi , Fahd Saleh Alotaibi , Muhammad Sher Ramzan

The application of large language models (LLMs) to healthcare information extraction has emerged as a promising approach. This study evaluates the classification performance of five open-source LLMs: GEMMA-3-27B-IT, LLAMA3-70B, LLAMA4-109B,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-05-09 Yuting Guo , Abeed Sarker

When dealing with text data containing subjective labels like speaker emotions, inaccuracies or discrepancies among labelers are not uncommon. Such discrepancies can significantly affect the performance of machine learning algorithms. This…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-29 Yuetian Chen , Mei Si

The advent of Large Language Models (LLMs) is promising and LLMs have been applied to numerous fields. However, it is not trivial to implement LLMs in the medical field, due to the high standards for precision and accuracy. Currently, the…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-12-04 Rishabh Goel

In today's world,the risk of emerging and re-emerging epidemics have increased.The recent advancement in healthcare technology has made it possible to predict an epidemic outbreak in a region.Early prediction of an epidemic outbreak greatly…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-09-01 Akshara Pramod , JS Abhishek , Suganthi K

Machine Learning applications have brought new insights into a secondary analysis of medical data. Machine Learning helps to develop new drugs, define populations susceptible to certain illnesses, identify predictors of many common…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-12-29 YuanZheng Hu , Marina Sokolova

Toxic speech on online platforms is a growing concern, impacting user experience and online safety. While text-based toxicity detection is well-studied, audio-based approaches remain underexplored, especially for low-resource languages like…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-06-03 Huy Ba Do , Vy Le-Phuong Huynh , Luan Thanh Nguyen

Named entity recognition (NER) plays an important role in text-based information retrieval. In this paper, we combine Bidirectional Long Short-Term Memory (Bi-LSTM) \cite{hochreiter1997,schuster1997} with Conditional Random Field (CRF)…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-12-04 Ngoc C. Lê , Ngoc-Yen Nguyen , Anh-Duong Trinh

We consider the problem of detecting an epidemic in a population where individual diagnoses are extremely noisy. The motivation for this problem is the plethora of examples (influenza strains in humans, or computer viruses in smartphones,…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2014-02-07 Eli A. Meirom , Chris Milling , Constantine Caramanis , Shie Mannor , Ariel Orda , Sanjay Shakkottai

We study the problem of estimating the origin of an epidemic outbreak -- given a contact network and a snapshot of epidemic spread at a certain time, determine the infection source. Finding the source is important in different contexts of…

Physics and Society · Physics 2014-11-20 Andrey Y. Lokhov , Marc Mézard , Hiroki Ohta , Lenka Zdeborová

A key characteristic of the spread of infectious diseases is their ability to use efficient transmission paths within contact graphs. This enables the pathogen to maximise infection rates and spread within a target population. In this work,…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2020-06-11 Shishir Nagaraja

Medical errors are a major public health concern and a leading cause of death worldwide. Many healthcare centers and hospitals use reporting systems where medical practitioners write a preliminary medical report and the report is later…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2020-05-01 Sean MacAvaney , Arman Cohan , Nazli Goharian , Ross Filice

Machine-learning algorithms can facilitate low-cost, user-guided visual diagnostic platforms for addressing disparities in access to sexual health services. We developed a clinical image dataset using original and augmented images for five…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-03-14 Lao-Tzu Allan-Blitz , Sithira Ambepitiya , Raghavendra Tirupathi , Jeffrey D. Klausner , Yudara Kularathne

Automatic Text Categorization (TC) is a complex and useful task for many natural language applications, and is usually performed through the use of a set of manually classified documents, a training collection. We suggest the utilization of…

cmp-lg · Computer Science 2008-02-03 Manuel de Buenaga Rodriguez , Jose Maria Gomez Hidalgo , Belen Diaz Agudo

Background: The global spread of the severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) epidemic has clearly shown the importance of considering the long-range transportation networks in the understanding of emerging diseases outbreaks. The…

Other Quantitative Biology · Quantitative Biology 2008-01-16 Vittoria Colizza , Alain Barrat , Marc Barthelemy , Alessandro Vespignani

Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) have recently achieved remarkably strong performance on the practically important task of sentence classification (kim 2014, kalchbrenner 2014, johnson 2014). However, these models require practitioners…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2016-04-08 Ye Zhang , Byron Wallace

We propose an attentive neural network for the task of named entity recognition in Vietnamese. The proposed attentive neural model makes use of character-based language models and word embeddings to encode words as vector representations. A…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-06-11 Kim Anh Nguyen , Ngan Dong , Cam-Tu Nguyen

$\textbf{Objective}$ Develop an automatic diagnostic system which only uses textual admission information from Electronic Health Records (EHRs) and assist clinicians with a timely and statistically proved decision tool. The hope is that the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-12-08 Christy Li , Dimitris Konomis , Graham Neubig , Pengtao Xie , Carol Cheng , Eric Xing

PURPOSE: The medical literature relevant to germline genetics is growing exponentially. Clinicians need tools monitoring and prioritizing the literature to understand the clinical implications of the pathogenic genetic variants. We…

Detecting keywords in texts is important for many text mining applications. Graph-based methods have been commonly used to automatically find the key concepts in texts, however, relevant information provided by embeddings has not been…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-05-05 Jorge A. V. Tohalino , Thiago C. Silva , Diego R. Amancio