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Entity linking is an indispensable operation of populating knowledge repositories for information extraction. It studies on aligning a textual entity mention to its corresponding disambiguated entry in a knowledge repository. In this paper,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2015-08-06 Miao Fan , Qiang Zhou , Thomas Fang Zheng

Entity linking (EL) is the process of linking entity mentions appearing in web text with their corresponding entities in a knowledge base. EL plays an important role in the fields of knowledge engineering and data mining, underlying a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-09-28 Wei Shen , Yuhan Li , Yinan Liu , Jiawei Han , Jianyong Wang , Xiaojie Yuan

Integrating novel medical concepts and relationships into existing ontologies can significantly enhance their coverage and utility for both biomedical research and clinical applications. Clinical notes, as unstructured documents rich with…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-11-21 Guanchen Wu , Yuzhang Xie , Huanwei Wu , Zhe He , Hui Shao , Xiao Hu , Carl Yang

Our objective in this study is to investigate the behavior of Boolean operators on combining annotation output from multiple Natural Language Processing (NLP) systems across multiple corpora and to assess how filtering by aggregation of…

Clinical language models are important for many applications in healthcare, but their development depends on access to extensive clinical text for pretraining. However, obtaining clinical notes from electronic health records (EHRs) at scale…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-12-02 Jinghui Liu , Anthony Nguyen

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

Recently, Large Language Models (LLM) have demonstrated impressive capability to solve a wide range of tasks. However, despite their success across various tasks, no prior work has investigated their capability in the biomedical domain yet.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-02-21 Israt Jahan , Md Tahmid Rahman Laskar , Chun Peng , Jimmy Huang

Diagnostic imaging relies on interpreting both images and radiology reports, but the growing data volumes place significant pressure on medical experts, yielding increased errors and workflow backlogs. Medical vision-language models…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-25 Saban Ozturk , Melih B. Yilmaz , Muti Kara , M. Talat Yavuz , Aykut Koç , Tolga Çukur

Entity linking is an important step towards constructing knowledge graphs that facilitate advanced question answering over scientific documents, including the retrieval of relevant information included in tables within these documents. This…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-06-21 Varish Mulwad , Tim Finin , Vijay S. Kumar , Jenny Weisenberg Williams , Sharad Dixit , Anupam Joshi

The application of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in healthcare has been revolutionary, especially with the recent advancements in transformer-based Large Language Models (LLMs). However, the task of understanding unstructured electronic…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-08-08 Shivani Shekhar , Simran Tiwari , T. C. Rensink , Ramy Eskander , Wael Salloum

Biomedical named entity recognition (NER) and entity linking (EL) strongly depend on annotated corpora, but the utility of these resources for benchmarking is often assumed rather than characterized. We present a corpus-centric framework…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-05-21 Robert Leaman , Rezarta Islamaj , Zhiyong Lu

The current mode of use of Electronic Health Record (EHR) elicits text redundancy. Clinicians often populate new documents by duplicating existing notes, then updating accordingly. Data duplication can lead to a propagation of errors,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-02-28 Thomas Searle , Zina Ibrahim , James Teo , Richard JB Dobson

Online encyclopedia such as Wikipedia has become one of the best sources of knowledge. Much effort has been devoted to expanding and enriching the structured data by automatic information extraction from unstructured text in Wikipedia.…

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In this fast developing world of information, the amount of medical knowledge is rising at an exponential level. The UMLS (Unified Medical Language Systems), is rich knowledge base consisting files and software that provides many health and…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2016-12-23 Nareena Soomro , Safeeulah Soomro , Zainab Alansari , Suhni Abbasi , Mohammad Riyaz Belgaum , Abdul Baqi Khakwani

Medical information extraction consists of a group of natural language processing (NLP) tasks, which collaboratively convert clinical text to pre-defined structured formats. Current state-of-the-art (SOTA) NLP models are highly integrated…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-03-09 Enwei Zhu , Qilin Sheng , Huanwan Yang , Jinpeng Li

Whilst there has been growing progress in Entity Linking (EL) for general language, existing datasets fail to address the complex nature of health terminology in layman's language. Meanwhile, there is a growing need for applications that…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-10-09 Marco Basaldella , Fangyu Liu , Ehsan Shareghi , Nigel Collier

Word embeddings are a popular approach to unsupervised learning of word relationships that are widely used in natural language processing. In this article, we present a new set of embeddings for medical concepts learned using an extremely…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-08-21 Andrew L. Beam , Benjamin Kompa , Allen Schmaltz , Inbar Fried , Griffin Weber , Nathan P. Palmer , Xu Shi , Tianxi Cai , Isaac S. Kohane

Synthetic data generation using large language models (LLMs) demonstrates substantial promise in addressing biomedical data challenges and shows increasing adoption in biomedical research. This study systematically reviews recent advances…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-02-18 Hanshu Rao , Weisi Liu , Haohan Wang , I-Chan Huang , Zhe He , Xiaolei Huang

There are a few challenges related to the task of biomedical named entity recognition, which are: the existing methods consider a fewer number of biomedical entities (e.g., disease, symptom, proteins, genes); and these methods do not…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-07-05 Shaina Raza , Brian Schwartz