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This paper addresses the challenges posed by the unstructured nature and high-dimensional semantic complexity of electronic health record texts. A deep learning method based on attention mechanisms is proposed to achieve unified modeling…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-07-03 Ting Xu , Xiaoxiao Deng , Xiandong Meng , Haifeng Yang , Yan Wu

Processing information locked within clinical health records is a challenging task that remains an active area of research in biomedical NLP. In this work, we evaluate a broad set of machine learning techniques ranging from simple RNNs to…

Transformer neural networks, particularly Bidirectional Encoder Representations from Transformers (BERT), have shown remarkable performance across various tasks such as classification, text summarization, and question answering. However,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-18 Matteo Bonino , Giorgia Ghione , Giansalvo Cirrincione

Recent advancements in the NLP field showed that transfer learning helps with achieving state-of-the-art results for new tasks by tuning pre-trained models instead of starting from scratch. Transformers have made a significant improvement…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-09-14 Aysu Ezen-Can

The success of self-attention lies in its ability to capture long-range dependencies and enhance context understanding, but it is limited by its computational complexity and challenges in handling sequential data with inherent…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-05-05 Md Kowsher , Nusrat Jahan Prottasha , Chun-Nam Yu , Ozlem Ozmen Garibay , Niloofar Yousefi

Document screening is a central task within Evidenced Based Medicine, which is a clinical discipline that supplements scientific proof to back medical decisions. Given the recent advances in DL (Deep Learning) methods applied to Information…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-04-20 Alexandros Ioannidis

Fine-tuning with pre-trained models has achieved exceptional results for many language tasks. In this study, we focused on one such self-attention network model, namely BERT, which has performed well in terms of stacking layers across…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-10-09 Ta-Chun Su , Hsiang-Chih Cheng

We introduce a novel multi-agent collaboration framework designed to enhance the accuracy and robustness of text classification models. Leveraging BERT as the primary classifier, our framework dynamically escalates low-confidence…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-02-27 Hediyeh Baban , Sai A Pidapar , Aashutosh Nema , Sichen Lu

Extracting clinically relevant information from unstructured medical narratives such as admission notes, discharge summaries, and emergency case histories remains a challenge in clinical natural language processing (NLP). Medical Entity…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Nwe Ni Win , Jim Basilakis , Steven Thomas , Seyhan Yazar , Laura Pierce , Stephanie Liu , Paul M. Middleton , Nasser Ghadiri , X. Rosalind Wang

Large pre-trained language models have recently gained significant traction due to their improved performance on various down-stream tasks like text classification and question answering, requiring only few epochs of fine-tuning. However,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-09-01 Souvik Kundu , Sharath Nittur Sridhar , Maciej Szankin , Sairam Sundaresan

Pre-trained language models such as BERT have been proved to be powerful in many natural language processing tasks. But in some text classification applications such as emotion recognition and sentiment analysis, BERT may not lead to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-06-03 Zixiao Zhu , Kezhi Mao

Product-specific guidances (PSGs) recommended by the United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) are instrumental to promote and guide generic drug product development. To assess a PSG, the FDA assessor needs to take extensive time and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-07-26 Yiwen Shi , Jing Wang , Ping Ren , Taha ValizadehAslani , Yi Zhang , Meng Hu , Hualou Liang

Recognition of biomedical entities from literature is a challenging research focus, which is the foundation for extracting a large amount of biomedical knowledge existing in unstructured texts into structured formats. Using the sequence…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-05-18 Cong Sun , Zhihao Yang , Lei Wang , Yin Zhang , Hongfei Lin , Jian Wang

Transformer-based pre-trained language models such as BERT have achieved remarkable results in Semantic Sentence Matching. However, existing models still suffer from insufficient ability to capture subtle differences. Minor noise like word…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-04-17 Sirui Wang , Di Liang , Jian Song , Yuntao Li , Wei Wu

Although Transformer models such as Google's BERT and OpenAI's GPT-3 are successful in many natural language processing tasks, training and deploying these models are costly and inefficient.Even if pre-trained models are used, deploying…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-01-26 Madhusudan Verma

This paper describes our submission on the COVID-19 literature annotation task at Biocreative VII. We proposed an approach that exploits the knowledge of the globally non-optimal weights, usually rejected, to build a rich representation of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-11-12 Loïc Rakotoson , Charles Letaillieur , Sylvain Massip , Fréjus Laleye

Relevance has significant impact on user experience and business profit for e-commerce search platform. In this work, we propose a data-driven framework for search relevance prediction, by distilling knowledge from BERT and related…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-10-21 Yunjiang Jiang , Yue Shang , Ziyang Liu , Hongwei Shen , Yun Xiao , Wei Xiong , Sulong Xu , Weipeng Yan , Di Jin

The Transformer model is widely successful on many natural language processing tasks. However, the quadratic complexity of self-attention limit its application on long text. In this paper, adopting a fine-to-coarse attention mechanism on…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-11-12 Zihao Ye , Qipeng Guo , Quan Gan , Xipeng Qiu , Zheng Zhang

We present a refined approach to biomedical question-answering (QA) services by integrating large language models (LLMs) with Multi-BERT configurations. By enhancing the ability to process and prioritize vast amounts of complex biomedical…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-10-18 Cheng Qian , Xianglong Shi , Shanshan Yao , Yichen Liu , Fengming Zhou , Zishu Zhang , Junaid Akram , Ali Braytee , Ali Anaissi

Natural language understanding (NLU) has two core tasks: intent classification and slot filling. The success of pre-training language models resulted in a significant breakthrough in the two tasks. One of the promising solutions called BERT…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-02-03 Yu Guo , Zhilong Xie , Xingyan Chen , Huangen Chen , Leilei Wang , Huaming Du , Shaopeng Wei , Yu Zhao , Qing Li , Gang Wu