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Clinical studies often require understanding elements of a patient's narrative that exist only in free text clinical notes. To transform notes into structured data for downstream use, these elements are commonly extracted and normalized to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-08-03 Monica Agrawal , Chloe O'Connell , Yasmin Fatemi , Ariel Levy , David Sontag

Techniques for automatically extracting important content elements from business documents such as contracts, statements, and filings have the potential to make business operations more efficient. This problem can be formulated as a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-02-06 Ruixue Zhang , Wei Yang , Luyun Lin , Zhengkai Tu , Yuqing Xie , Zihang Fu , Yuhao Xie , Luchen Tan , Kun Xiong , Jimmy Lin

The fundamental process of evidence extraction and synthesis in evidence-based medicine involves extracting PICO (Population, Intervention, Comparison, and Outcome) elements from biomedical literature. However, Outcomes, being the most…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-06-09 Yiliang Zhou , Abigail M. Newbury , Gongbo Zhang , Betina Ross Idnay , Hao Liu , Chunhua Weng , Yifan Peng

Supervised named entity recognition (NER) in the biomedical domain depends on large sets of annotated texts with the given named entities. The creation of such datasets can be time-consuming and expensive, while extraction of new entities…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-08-27 Miloš Košprdić , Nikola Prodanović , Adela Ljajić , Bojana Bašaragin , Nikola Milošević

Requirements identification in textual documents or extraction is a tedious and error prone task that many researchers suggest automating. We manually annotated the PURE dataset and thus created a new one containing both requirements and…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-02-07 Vladimir Ivanov , Andrey Sadovykh , Alexandr Naumchev , Alessandra Bagnato , Kirill Yakovlev

This study proposes a medical entity extraction method based on Transformer to enhance the information extraction capability of medical literature. Considering the professionalism and complexity of medical texts, we compare the performance…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-04-08 Xiaokai Wang , Guiran Liu , Binrong Zhu , Jacky He , Hongye Zheng , Hanlu Zhang

We present a system that allows life-science researchers to search a linguistically annotated corpus of scientific texts using patterns over dependency graphs, as well as using patterns over token sequences and a powerful variant of boolean…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-06-09 Hillel Taub-Tabib , Micah Shlain , Shoval Sadde , Dan Lahav , Matan Eyal , Yaara Cohen , Yoav Goldberg

Process extraction from text is an important task of process discovery, for which various approaches have been developed in recent years. However, in contrast to other information extraction tasks, there is a lack of gold-standard corpora…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-07-22 Patrizio Bellan , Han van der Aa , Mauro Dragoni , Chiara Ghidini , Simone Paolo Ponzetto

Text mining and information extraction for the medical domain has focused on scientific text generated by researchers. However, their direct access to individual patient experiences or patient-doctor interactions can be limited. Information…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-04-22 Amelie Wührl , Roman Klinger

This paper presents a practical approach to fine-grained information extraction. Through plenty of experiences of authors in practically applying information extraction to business process automation, there can be found a couple of…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2020-06-09 Minh-Tien Nguyen , Viet-Anh Phan , Le Thai Linh , Nguyen Hong Son , Le Tien Dung , Miku Hirano , Hajime Hotta

Function is increasingly recognized as an important indicator of whole-person health, although it receives little attention in clinical natural language processing research. We introduce the first public annotated dataset specifically on…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-11-28 Tuan-Dung Le , Zhuqi Miao , Samuel Alvarado , Brittany Smith , William Paiva , Thanh Thieu

The delivery of appropriate targeted therapies to cancer patients requires the complete analysis of the molecular profiling of tumors and the patient's clinical characteristics in the context of existing knowledge and recent findings…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-12-13 Ting He , Kory Kreimeyer , Mimi Najjar , Jonathan Spiker , Maria Fatteh , Valsamo Anagnostou , Taxiarchis Botsis

We present a weakly-supervised data augmentation approach to improve Named Entity Recognition (NER) in a challenging domain: extracting biomedical entities (e.g., proteins) from the scientific literature. First, we train a neural NER (NNER)…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-06-04 Joel Mathew , Shobeir Fakhraei , José Luis Ambite

The automation of text summarisation of biomedical publications is a pressing need due to the plethora of information available on-line. This paper explores the impact of several supervised machine learning approaches for extracting…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-12-07 Mandeep Kaur , Diego Mollá

We curated WikiPII, an automatically labeled dataset composed of Wikipedia biography pages, annotated for personal information extraction. Although automatic annotation can lead to a high degree of label noise, it is an inexpensive process…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-05-20 Rajitha Hathurusinghe , Isar Nejadgholi , Miodrag Bolic

Domain-specific named entity recognition (NER) on Computer Science (CS) scholarly articles is an information extraction task that is arguably more challenging for the various annotation aims that can beset the task and has been less studied…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-11-15 Jennifer D'Souza , Sören Auer

Identifying concepts and relationships in biomedical text enables knowledge to be applied in computational analyses. Many biological natural language process (BioNLP) projects attempt to address this challenge, but the state of the art in…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2014-08-11 Benjamin M Good , Max Nanis , Andrew I. Su

Motivation: State-of-the-art biomedical named entity recognition (BioNER) systems often require handcrafted features specific to each entity type, such as genes, chemicals and diseases. Although recent studies explored using neural network…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2018-10-09 Xuan Wang , Yu Zhang , Xiang Ren , Yuhao Zhang , Marinka Zitnik , Jingbo Shang , Curtis Langlotz , Jiawei Han

Recent multilingual named entity recognition (NER) work has shown that large language models (LLMs) can provide effective synthetic supervision, yet such datasets have mostly appeared as by-products of broader experiments rather than as…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-12-17 Jonas Golde , Patrick Haller , Alan Akbik

Biomedical Information Extraction is an exciting field at the crossroads of Natural Language Processing, Biology and Medicine. It encompasses a variety of different tasks that require application of state-of-the-art NLP techniques, such as…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-05-17 Surag Nair