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Search engines based on keyword retrieval can no longer adapt to the way of information acquisition in the era of intelligent Internet of Things due to the return of keyword related Internet pages. How to quickly, accurately and effectively…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-01-03 Gaochen Wu , Bin Xu , Yuxin Qin , Yang Liu , Lingyu Liu , Ziwei Wang

This paper introduces QAConv, a new question answering (QA) dataset that uses conversations as a knowledge source. We focus on informative conversations, including business emails, panel discussions, and work channels. Unlike open-domain…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-04-18 Chien-Sheng Wu , Andrea Madotto , Wenhao Liu , Pascale Fung , Caiming Xiong

The paper presents an open-domain Question Answering system for Romanian, answering COVID-19 related questions. The QA system pipeline involves automatic question processing, automatic query generation, web searching for the top 10 most…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-06-17 Radu Ion , Andrei-Marius Avram , Vasile Păiş , Maria Mitrofan , Verginica Barbu Mititelu , Elena Irimia , Valentin Badea

Question rewriting (QR) is a subtask of conversational question answering (CQA) aiming to ease the challenges of understanding dependencies among dialogue history by reformulating questions in a self-contained form. Despite seeming…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-04-14 Etsuko Ishii , Yan Xu , Samuel Cahyawijaya , Bryan Wilie

Question Answering (QA) research is a significant and challenging task in Natural Language Processing. QA aims to extract an exact answer from a relevant text snippet or a document. The motivation behind QA research is the need of user who…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2018-10-10 Lokesh Kumar Sharma , Namita Mittal

Foundation models pretrained on electronic health records (EHR) have demonstrated zero-shot clinical prediction capabilities by generating synthetic patient futures and aggregating statistics over sampled trajectories. However, this…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Payal Chandak , Gregory Kondas , Liat Antwarg Friedman , Isaac Kohane , Matthew McDermott

Electronic Health Record (EHR) has become an essential tool in the healthcare ecosystem, providing authorized clinicians with patients' health-related information for better treatment. While most developed countries are taking advantage of…

The utilization of Electronic Health Records (EHRs) for clinical risk prediction is on the rise. However, strict privacy regulations limit access to comprehensive health records, making it challenging to apply standard machine learning…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-12-08 Angeela Acharya , Sulabh Shrestha , Anyi Chen , Joseph Conte , Sanja Avramovic , Siddhartha Sikdar , Antonios Anastasopoulos , Sanmay Das

Query rewriting (QR) is an increasingly important technique to reduce customer friction caused by errors in a spoken language understanding pipeline, where the errors originate from various sources such as speech recognition errors,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-02-14 Zheng Chen , Xing Fan , Yuan Ling , Lambert Mathias , Chenlei Guo

Question answering (QA) models often rely on large-scale training datasets, which necessitates the development of a data generation framework to reduce the cost of manual annotations. Although several recent studies have aimed to generate…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-02-07 Seongyun Lee , Hyunjae Kim , Jaewoo Kang

Information in electronic health records (EHR), such as clinical narratives, examination reports, lab measurements, demographics, and other patient encounter entries, can be transformed into appropriate data representations that can be used…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-09-23 Wei-Hung Weng , Peter Szolovits

To optimize the preparation process for educators in academic lectures and associated question-and-answer sessions, this paper presents E-QGen, a lecture abstract-based question generation system. Given a lecture abstract, E-QGen generates…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-04-23 Mao-Siang Chen , An-Zi Yen

Clinical text structuring is a critical and fundamental task for clinical research. Traditional methods such as taskspecific end-to-end models and pipeline models usually suffer from the lack of dataset and error propagation. In this paper,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-10-23 Jiahui Qiu , Yangming Zhou , Zhiyuan Ma , Tong Ruan , Jinlin Liu , Jing Sun

Digital healthcare systems have enabled the collection of mass healthcare data in electronic healthcare records (EHRs), allowing artificial intelligence solutions for various healthcare prediction tasks. However, existing studies often…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-27 Zi Cai , Yu Liu , Zhiyao Luo , Tingting Zhu

Question answering (QA) is an important natural language processing (NLP) task and has received much attention in academic research and industry communities. Existing QA studies assume that questions are raised by humans and answers are…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-01-15 Qing Yin , Guan Luo , Xiaodong Zhu , Qinghua Hu , Ou Wu

Question Answering (QA) has shown great success thanks to the availability of large-scale datasets and the effectiveness of neural models. Recent research works have attempted to extend these successes to the settings with few or no labeled…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-05-07 Zhongli Li , Wenhui Wang , Li Dong , Furu Wei , Ke Xu

The inherent complexity of structured longitudinal Electronic Health Records (EHR) data poses a significant challenge when integrated with Large Language Models (LLMs), which are traditionally tailored for natural language processing.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-02-13 Yinghao Zhu , Zixiang Wang , Junyi Gao , Yuning Tong , Jingkun An , Weibin Liao , Ewen M. Harrison , Liantao Ma , Chengwei Pan

Question answering (QA) systems are among the most important and rapidly developing research topics in natural language processing (NLP). A reason, therefore, is that a QA system allows humans to interact more naturally with a machine,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-09-27 Amer Farea , Zhen Yang , Kien Duong , Nadeesha Perera , Frank Emmert-Streib

Table Question Answering (Table QA) refers to providing precise answers from tables to answer a user's question. In recent years, there have been a lot of works on table QA, but there is a lack of comprehensive surveys on this research…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-07-13 Nengzheng Jin , Joanna Siebert , Dongfang Li , Qingcai Chen

Multi-span answer extraction, also known as the task of multi-span question answering (MSQA), is critical for real-world applications, as it requires extracting multiple pieces of information from a text to answer complex questions. Despite…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-02-16 Zhiyi Luo , Yingying Zhang , Shuyun Luo , Ying Zhao , Wentao Lyu