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Electronic Health Records (EHRs), which contain patients' medical histories in various multi-modal formats, often overlook the potential for joint reasoning across imaging and table modalities underexplored in current EHR Question Answering…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-12-27 Seongsu Bae , Daeun Kyung , Jaehee Ryu , Eunbyeol Cho , Gyubok Lee , Sunjun Kweon , Jungwoo Oh , Lei Ji , Eric I-Chao Chang , Tackeun Kim , Edward Choi

Extractive question answering (QA) systems can enable physicians and researchers to query medical records, a foundational capability for designing clinical studies and understanding patient medical history. However, building these systems…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-12-07 Joel Stremmel , Ardavan Saeedi , Hamid Hassanzadeh , Sanjit Batra , Jeffrey Hertzberg , Jaime Murillo , Eran Halperin

Large language models (LLMs) have shown promise in medical question answering, yet they often overlook the domain-specific expertise that professionals depend on, such as the clinical subject areas (e.g., trauma, airway) and the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-11-20 Xueren Ge , Sahil Murtaza , Anthony Cortez , Homa Alemzadeh

Though patients are increasingly granted digital access to their electronic health records (EHRs), existing interfaces may not support precise, trustworthy answers to patient-specific questions. Large language models (LLM) show promise in…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-03-26 Michael Frew , Nishit Bheda , Bryan Tripp

Clinical information extraction, which involves structuring clinical concepts from unstructured medical text, remains a challenging problem that could benefit from the inclusion of tabular background information available in electronic…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-12-10 Paloma Rabaey , Stefan Heytens , Thomas Demeester

Conversational Information Seeking (CIS) is a relatively new research area within conversational AI that attempts to seek information from end-users in order to understand and satisfy users' needs. If realized, such a system has…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-12-15 Manas Gaur , Kalpa Gunaratna , Vijay Srinivasan , Hongxia Jin

In recent years, there is strong emphasis on mining medical data using machine learning techniques. A common problem is to obtain a noiseless set of textual documents, with a relevant content for the research question, and developing a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-03 Christian Internò , Eloisa Ambrosini

As language models are adopted by a more sophisticated and diverse set of users, the importance of guaranteeing that they provide factually correct information supported by verifiable sources is critical across fields of study. This is…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-04-03 Chaitanya Malaviya , Subin Lee , Sihao Chen , Elizabeth Sieber , Mark Yatskar , Dan Roth

LLMs have demonstrated impressive performance in answering medical questions, such as achieving passing scores on medical licensing examinations. However, medical board exams or general clinical questions do not capture the complexity of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-02-19 Hanjie Chen , Zhouxiang Fang , Yash Singla , Mark Dredze

Patient portal allows discharged patients to access their personalized discharge instructions in electronic health records (EHRs). However, many patients have difficulty understanding or memorizing their discharge instructions. In this…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-08-22 Pengshan Cai , Zonghai Yao , Fei Liu , Dakuo Wang , Meghan Reilly , Huixue Zhou , Lingxi Li , Yi Cao , Alok Kapoor , Adarsha Bajracharya , Dan Berlowitz , Hong Yu

Medication recommendation is a crucial task for intelligent healthcare systems. Previous studies mainly recommend medications with electronic health records (EHRs). However, some details of interactions between doctors and patients may be…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-09-16 Zhenfeng He , Yuqiang Han , Zhenqiu Ouyang , Wei Gao , Hongxu Chen , Guandong Xu , Jian Wu

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

We introduce SciQAG, a novel framework for automatically generating high-quality science question-answer pairs from a large corpus of scientific literature based on large language models (LLMs). SciQAG consists of a QA generator and a QA…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-07-11 Yuwei Wan , Yixuan Liu , Aswathy Ajith , Clara Grazian , Bram Hoex , Wenjie Zhang , Chunyu Kit , Tong Xie , Ian Foster

Humans ask follow-up questions driven by curiosity, which reflects a creative human cognitive process. We introduce the task of real-world information-seeking follow-up question generation (FQG), which aims to generate follow-up questions…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-09-20 Yan Meng , Liangming Pan , Yixin Cao , Min-Yen Kan

We present NewsQs (news-cues), a dataset that provides question-answer pairs for multiple news documents. To create NewsQs, we augment a traditional multi-document summarization dataset with questions automatically generated by a T5-Large…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-06-18 Alyssa Hwang , Kalpit Dixit , Miguel Ballesteros , Yassine Benajiba , Vittorio Castelli , Markus Dreyer , Mohit Bansal , Kathleen McKeown

The records of a clinical encounter can be extensive and complex, thus placing a premium on tools that can extract and summarize relevant information. This paper introduces the task of generating discharge summaries for a clinical…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-04-29 Han-Chin Shing , Chaitanya Shivade , Nima Pourdamghani , Feng Nan , Philip Resnik , Douglas Oard , Parminder Bhatia

In this paper, we introduce MeDiaQA, a novel question answering(QA) dataset, which constructed on real online Medical Dialogues. It contains 22k multiple-choice questions annotated by human for over 11k dialogues with 120k utterances…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-08-19 Huqun Suri , Qi Zhang , Wenhua Huo , Yan Liu , Chunsheng Guan

Existing automatic scientific question generation studies mainly focus on single-document factoid QA, overlooking the inter-document reasoning crucial for scientific understanding. We present AIM-SciQA, an automated framework for generating…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Seungmin Lee , Dongha Kim , Yuni Jeon , Junyoung Koh , Min Song

Discharge communication is a critical yet underexplored component of patient care, where the goal shifts from diagnosis to education. While recent large language model (LLM) benchmarks emphasize in-visit diagnostic reasoning, they fail to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-09-22 Zonghai Yao , Michael Sun , Won Seok Jang , Sunjae Kwon , Soie Kwon , Hong Yu

Unstructured clinical notes contain essential patient information but are challenging for physicians to search and interpret efficiently. Although large language models (LLMs) have shown promise in question answering (QA), most existing…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-05-27 Dina Albassam