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Electronic Health Records (EHRs) contain a wealth of patient data; however, the sparsity of EHRs data often presents significant challenges for predictive modeling. Conventional imputation methods inadequately distinguish between real and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-27 Yinghao Zhu , Zixiang Wang , Long He , Shiyun Xie , Xiaochen Zheng , Liantao Ma , Chengwei Pan

The task of condensing large chunks of textual information into concise and structured tables has gained attention recently due to the emergence of Large Language Models (LLMs) and their potential benefit for downstream tasks, such as text…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-12-06 Zheye Deng , Chunkit Chan , Weiqi Wang , Yuxi Sun , Wei Fan , Tianshi Zheng , Yauwai Yim , Yangqiu Song

Medical progress notes play a crucial role in documenting a patient's hospital journey, including his or her condition, treatment plan, and any updates for healthcare providers. Automatic summarisation of a patient's problems in the form of…

Electronic Health Records are large repositories of valuable clinical data, with a significant portion stored in unstructured text format. This textual data includes clinical events (e.g., disorders, symptoms, findings, medications and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-09-02 Shubham Agarwal , Thomas Searle , Mart Ratas , Anthony Shek , James Teo , Richard Dobson

Systematic evaluation of speech separation and enhancement models under moving sound source conditions requires extensive and diverse data. However, real-world datasets often lack sufficient data for training and evaluation, and synthetic…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-03-07 Kai Li , Wendi Sang , Chang Zeng , Runxuan Yang , Guo Chen , Xiaolin Hu

In this paper, we consider the challenge of summarizing patients' medical progress notes in a limited data setting. For the Problem List Summarization (shared task 1A) at the BioNLP Workshop 2023, we demonstrate that Clinical-T5 fine-tuned…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-06-09 Potsawee Manakul , Yassir Fathullah , Adian Liusie , Vyas Raina , Vatsal Raina , Mark Gales

Large language models (LLMs) show promise for clinical reasoning and decision support, but evaluation in realistic, electronic health record-congruent settings remains limited. Existing benchmarks often rely on static datasets or…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-05-29 Valentina Bui Muti , Eugénie Dulout , Ziquan Fu

Patient-clinician communication is an asymmetric-information problem: patients often do not disclose fears, misconceptions, or practical barriers unless clinicians elicit them skillfully. Effective medical dialogue therefore requires…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-04-13 Yikun Han , Joey Chan , Jingyuan Chen , Mengting Ai , Simo Du , Yue Guo

Rare diseases, including Inborn Errors of Metabolism (IEM), pose significant diagnostic challenges. Case reports serve as key but computationally underutilized resources to inform diagnosis. Clinical dense information extraction refers to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-05-26 Xiao Yu Cindy Zhang , Carlos R. Ferreira , Francis Rossignol , Raymond T. Ng , Wyeth Wasserman , Jian Zhu

Automated summarization of clinical texts can reduce the burden of medical professionals. "Discharge summaries" are one promising application of the summarization, because they can be generated from daily inpatient records. Our preliminary…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-12-21 Kenichiro Ando , Takashi Okumura , Mamoru Komachi , Hiromasa Horiguchi , Yuji Matsumoto

We introduce SoftTiger, a clinical large language model (CLaM) designed as a foundation model for healthcare workflows. The narrative and unstructured nature of clinical notes is a major obstacle for healthcare intelligentization. We…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-08-21 Ye Chen , Igor Couto , Wei Cai , Cong Fu , Bruno Dorneles

Understanding causal narratives communicated in clinical notes can help make strides towards personalized healthcare. Extracted causal information from clinical notes can be combined with structured EHR data such as patients' demographics,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-03-15 Vivek Khetan , Md Imbesat Hassan Rizvi , Jessica Huber , Paige Bartusiak , Bogdan Sacaleanu , Andrew Fano

Structured data offers a sophisticated mechanism for the organization of information. Existing methodologies for the text-serialization of structured data in the context of large language models fail to adequately address the heterogeneity…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-02-20 YiQiu Guo , Yuchen Yang , Ya Zhang , Yu Wang , Yanfeng Wang

Large Language Models are increasingly being deployed to extract structured data from unstructured and semi-structured sources: parsing invoices, medical records, and converting PDF documents to database entries. Yet existing benchmarks for…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-04-29 Abhinav Kumar Singh , Harsha Vardhan Khurdula , Yoeven D Khemlani , Vineet Agarwal

Clinical concept extraction often begins with clinical Named Entity Recognition (NER). Often trained on annotated clinical notes, clinical NER models tend to struggle with tagging clinical entities in user queries because of the structural…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2019-12-25 Yue Zhao , John Handley

Regulatory compliance reporting in the pharmaceutical industry relies on detailed tables, but these are often under-utilized beyond compliance due to their unstructured format and arbitrary content. Extracting and semantically representing…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-10-08 Narayanan PP , Anantharaman Palacode Narayana Iyer

The effectiveness of artificial intelligence (AI) in healthcare is significantly hindered by unstructured clinical documentation, which results in noisy, inconsistent, and logically fragmented training data. To address this challenge, we…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-21 Dun Liu , Qin Pang , Guangai Liu , Hongyu Mou , Jipeng Fan , Yiming Miao , Pin-Han Ho , Limei Peng

This paper describes novel models tailored for a new application, that of extracting the symptoms mentioned in clinical conversations along with their status. Lack of any publicly available corpus in this privacy-sensitive domain led us to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-06-07 Nan Du , Kai Chen , Anjuli Kannan , Linh Tran , Yuhui Chen , Izhak Shafran

As two important textual modalities in electronic health records (EHR), both structured data (clinical codes) and unstructured data (clinical narratives) have recently been increasingly applied to the healthcare domain. Most existing…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-11-01 Sicen Liu , Xiaolong Wang , Yongshuai Hou , Ge Li , Hui Wang , Hui Xu , Yang Xiang , Buzhou Tang

We present a new text-to-SQL dataset for electronic health records (EHRs). The utterances were collected from 222 hospital staff members, including physicians, nurses, and insurance review and health records teams. To construct the QA…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-03-06 Gyubok Lee , Hyeonji Hwang , Seongsu Bae , Yeonsu Kwon , Woncheol Shin , Seongjun Yang , Minjoon Seo , Jong-Yeup Kim , Edward Choi