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Objective: Patient notes in electronic health records (EHRs) may contain critical information for medical investigations. However, the vast majority of medical investigators can only access de-identified notes, in order to protect the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2016-06-14 Franck Dernoncourt , Ji Young Lee , Ozlem Uzuner , Peter Szolovits

We introduce a biomedical information extraction (IE) pipeline that extracts biological relationships from text and demonstrate that its components, such as named entity recognition (NER) and relation extraction (RE), outperform…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-11-13 Jupinder Parmar , William Koehler , Martin Bringmann , Katharina Sophia Volz , Berk Kapicioglu

Functioning is gaining recognition as an important indicator of global health, but remains under-studied in medical natural language processing research. We present the first analysis of automatically extracting descriptions of patient…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-06-08 Denis Newman-Griffis , Ayah Zirikly

Objectives: Despite the recent adoption of large language models (LLMs) for biomedical information extraction, challenges in prompt engineering and algorithms persist, with no dedicated software available. To address this, we developed…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-02 Enshuo Hsu , Kirk Roberts

Electronic Health Records (EHRs) have become the primary form of medical data-keeping across the United States. Federal law restricts the sharing of any EHR data that contains protected health information (PHI). De-identification, the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-03-26 Abdullah Ahmed , Adeel Abbasi , Carsten Eickhoff

Although named entity recognition (NER) helps us to extract domain-specific entities from text (e.g., artists in the music domain), it is costly to create a large amount of training data or a structured knowledge base to perform accurate…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-06-07 Kosuke Nishida , Naoki Yoshinaga , Kyosuke Nishida

This study is dedicated to exploring the application of prompt learning methods to advance Named Entity Recognition (NER) within the medical domain. In recent years, the emergence of large-scale models has driven significant progress in NER…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-06-04 Jinzhu Yang

Existing scholarly information extraction (SIE) datasets focus on scientific papers and overlook implementation-level details in code repositories. README files describe datasets, source code, and other implementation-level artifacts,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-03-09 Genet Asefa Gesese , Zongxiong Chen , Shufan Jiang , Mary Ann Tan , Zhaotai Liu , Sonja Schimmler , Harald Sack

Naming tests represent an essential tool in gauging the severity of aphasia and monitoring the trajectory of recovery for individuals afflicted with this debilitating condition. In these assessments, patients are presented with images…

Biomedical named entity recognition (BioNER) seeks to automatically recognize biomedical entities in natural language text, serving as a necessary foundation for downstream text mining tasks and applications such as information extraction…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-05-17 Ling Luo , Chih-Hsuan Wei , Po-Ting Lai , Robert Leaman , Qingyu Chen , Zhiyong Lu

The recognition of medical entities from natural language is an ubiquitous problem in the medical field, with applications ranging from medical act coding to the analysis of electronic health data for public health. It is however a complex…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-05-07 Louis Falissard , Claire Morgand , Sylvie Roussel , Claire Imbaud , Walid Ghosn , Karim Bounebache , Grégoire Rey

Objective: Extracting PICO elements -- Participants, Intervention, Comparison, and Outcomes -- from clinical trial literature is essential for clinical evidence retrieval, appraisal, and synthesis. Existing approaches do not distinguish the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-12-30 Fangyi Chen , Gongbo Zhang , Yilu Fang , Yifan Peng , Chunhua Weng

Named entity recognition (NER) stands as a fundamental and pivotal task within the realm of Natural Language Processing. Particularly within the domain of Biomedical Method NER, this task presents notable challenges, stemming from the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-07-01 Chen Tang , Bohao Yang , Kun Zhao , Bo Lv , Chenghao Xiao , Frank Guerin , Chenghua Lin

Named entity recognition (NER) is used to extract information from various documents and texts such as names and dates. It is important to extract education and work experience information from resumes in order to filter them. Considering…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-06-23 Ege Kesim , Aysu Deliahmetoglu

Medication Extraction and Mining play an important role in healthcare NLP research due to its practical applications in hospital settings, such as their mapping into standard clinical knowledge bases (SNOMED-CT, BNF, etc.). In this work, we…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-12-31 Pablo Romero , Lifeng Han , Goran Nenadic

Accurate recognition of biomedical named entities is critical for medical information extraction and knowledge discovery. However, existing methods often struggle with nested entities, entity boundary ambiguity, and cross-lingual…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-10-13 Tengxiao Lv , Ling Luo , Juntao Li , Yanhua Wang , Yuchen Pan , Chao Liu , Yanan Wang , Yan Jiang , Huiyi Lv , Yuanyuan Sun , Jian Wang , Hongfei Lin

Information extraction techniques, including named entity recognition (NER) and relation extraction (RE), are crucial in many domains to support making sense of vast amounts of unstructured text data by identifying and connecting relevant…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-01-17 Mingjie Li , Karin Verspoor

This paper introduces a novel, entity-aware metric, termed as Radiological Report (Text) Evaluation (RaTEScore), to assess the quality of medical reports generated by AI models. RaTEScore emphasizes crucial medical entities such as…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-10-24 Weike Zhao , Chaoyi Wu , Xiaoman Zhang , Ya Zhang , Yanfeng Wang , Weidi Xie

Comprehend Medical is a stateless and Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) eligible Named Entity Recognition (NER) and Relationship Extraction (RE) service launched under Amazon Web Services (AWS) trained using…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-10-17 Parminder Bhatia , Busra Celikkaya , Mohammed Khalilia , Selvan Senthivel

Artificial intelligence (AI) tools for radiology are commonly unmonitored once deployed. The lack of real-time case-by-case assessments of AI prediction confidence requires users to independently distinguish between trustworthy and…