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Medical consultation dialogues contain critical clinical information, yet their unstructured nature hinders effective utilization in diagnosis and treatment. Traditional methods, relying on rule-based or shallow machine learning techniques,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-04-24 Shuguang Zhao , Qiangzhong Feng , Zhiyang He , Peipei Sun , Yingying Wang , Xiaodong Tao , Xiaoliang Lu , Mei Cheng , Xinyue Wu , Yanyan Wang , Wei Liang

The advent of large language models is contributing to the emergence of novel approaches that promise to better tackle the challenge of generating structured queries, such as SPARQL queries, from natural language. However, these new…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-12-17 Panayiotis Smeros , Vincent Emonet , Ruijie Wang , Ana-Claudia Sima , Tarcisio Mendes de Farias

Query graph construction aims to construct the correct executable SPARQL on the KG to answer natural language questions. Although recent methods have achieved good results using neural network-based query graph ranking, they suffer from…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-09-13 Yongrui Chen , Huiying Li , Guilin Qi , Tianxing Wu , Tenggou Wang

Traditional approaches for Visual Question Answering (VQA) require large amount of labeled data for training. Unfortunately, such large scale data is usually not available for medical domain. In this paper, we propose a novel medical VQA…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-09-27 Binh D. Nguyen , Thanh-Toan Do , Binh X. Nguyen , Tuong Do , Erman Tjiputra , Quang D. Tran

Electronic health records (EHRs) are multimodal by nature, consisting of structured tabular features like lab tests and unstructured clinical notes. In real-life clinical practice, doctors use complementary multimodal EHR data sources to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-07-18 Thao Minh Nguyen Phan , Cong-Tinh Dao , Chenwei Wu , Jian-Zhe Wang , Shun Liu , Jun-En Ding , David Restrepo , Feng Liu , Fang-Ming Hung , Wen-Chih Peng

The wide adoption of Electronic Health Records (EHR) has resulted in large amounts of clinical data becoming available, which promises to support service delivery and advance clinical and informatics research. Deep learning techniques have…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-02-14 Thanh Nguyen-Duc , Natasha Mulligan , Gurdeep S. Mannu , Joao H. Bettencourt-Silva

Question answering (QA) system aims at retrieving precise information from a large collection of documents against a query. This paper describes the architecture of a Natural Language Question Answering (NLQA) system for a specific domain…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2013-11-14 Athira P. M. , Sreeja M. , P. C. Reghu Raj

Table question answering (TableQA) is a fundamental task in natural language processing (NLP). The strong reasoning capabilities of large language models (LLMs) have brought significant advances in this field. However, as real-world…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Shenghao Ye , Yu Guo , Dong Jin , Yikai Shen , Yunpeng Hou , Shuangwu Chen , Jian Yang , Xiaofeng Jiang

Automated clinical diagnosis remains a core challenge in medical AI, which usually requires models to integrate multi-modal data and reason across complex, case-specific contexts. Although recent methods have advanced medical report…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Yuezhe Yang , Hao Wang , Yige Peng , Jinman Kim , Lei Bi

Due to the concise and structured nature of tables, the knowledge contained therein may be incomplete or missing, posing a significant challenge for table question answering (TableQA) and data analysis systems. Most existing datasets either…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-05-15 Mengkang Hu , Haoyu Dong , Ping Luo , Shi Han , Dongmei Zhang

We present ECG-Expert-QA, a comprehensive multimodal dataset for evaluating diagnostic capabilities in electrocardiogram (ECG) interpretation. It combines real-world clinical ECG data with systematically generated synthetic cases, covering…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-04-08 Xu Wang , Jiaju Kang , Puyu Han , Yubao Zhao , Qian Liu , Liwenfei He , Lingqiong Zhang , Lingyun Dai , Yongcheng Wang , Jie Tao

High-performing medical Large Language Models (LLMs) typically require extensive fine-tuning with substantial computational resources, limiting accessibility for resource-constrained healthcare institutions. This study introduces a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-10-17 Ziad Elshaer , Essam A. Rashed

Multimodal vision-language models (VLMs) continue to achieve ever-improving scores on chart understanding benchmarks. Yet, we find that this progress does not fully capture the breadth of visual reasoning capabilities essential for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-09 Kushin Mukherjee , Donghao Ren , Dominik Moritz , Yannick Assogba

Conversational generative AI is increasingly explored in healthcare, where models must integrate heterogeneous patient signals and support diverse interaction styles while producing clinically meaningful outputs. In respiratory care,…

Sound · Computer Science 2026-05-06 Gaia A. Bertolino , Yuwei Zhang , Tong Xia , Domenico Talia , Cecilia Mascolo

Table Question Answering (TQA) presents a substantial challenge at the intersection of natural language processing and data analytics. This task involves answering natural language (NL) questions on top of tabular data, demanding…

Databases · Computer Science 2023-10-03 Yunjia Zhang , Jordan Henkel , Avrilia Floratou , Joyce Cahoon , Shaleen Deep , Jignesh M. Patel

Recent advances in tabular question answering (QA) with large language models are constrained in their coverage and only answer questions over a single table. However, real-world queries are complex in nature, often over multiple tables in…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-08-09 Vaishali Pal , Andrew Yates , Evangelos Kanoulas , Maarten de Rijke

Increasing volume of Electronic Health Records (EHR) in recent years provides great opportunities for data scientists to collaborate on different aspects of healthcare research by applying advanced analytics to these EHR clinical data. A…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-10-01 Najibesadat Sadati , Milad Zafar Nezhad , Ratna Babu Chinnam , Dongxiao Zhu

Ontology-Mediated Query Answering (OMQA) is a well-established framework to answer queries over an RDFS or OWL Knowledge Base (KB). OMQA was originally designed for unions of conjunctive queries (UCQs), and based on certain answers. More…

Databases · Computer Science 2019-11-22 Julien Corman , Guohui Xiao

This thesis work falls within the framework of question answering (QA) in the biomedical domain where several specific challenges are addressed, such as specialized lexicons and terminologies, the types of treated questions, and the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-07-26 Mourad Sarrouti

Embodied Question Answering (EQA) connects perception, reasoning, and interaction within embodied environments. However, existing datasets and benchmarks remain fragmented, each focusing on a limited subset of reasoning skills such as…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Xicheng Gong , Qiwei Li , Peiran Xu , Yadong Mu