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In enterprise settings, efficiently retrieving relevant information from large and complex knowledge bases is essential for operational productivity and informed decision-making. This research presents a systematic empirical framework for…

Although the goal of achieving semantic interoperability of electronic health records (EHRs) is pursued by many researchers, it has not been accomplished yet. In this paper, we present a proposal that smoothes out the way toward the…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-01-23 Idoia Berges , Jesús Bermúdez , Arantza Illarramendi

Searching patients based on the relevance of their medical records is challenging because of the inherent implicit knowledge within the patients' medical records and queries. Such knowledge is known to the medical practitioners but may be…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2017-02-02 Nut Limsopatham , Craig Macdonald , Iadh Ounis

The increasing use of tools and solutions based on Large Language Models (LLMs) for various tasks in the medical domain has become a prominent trend. Their use in this highly critical and sensitive domain has thus raised important questions…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-01-09 Jean-Baptiste Excoffier , Tom Roehr , Alexei Figueroa , Jens-Michalis Papaioannou , Keno Bressem , Matthieu Ortala

Clinical problem-solving requires processing of semantic medical knowledge such as illness scripts and numerical medical knowledge of diagnostic tests for evidence-based decision-making. As large language models (LLMs) show promising…

Clinical trials are central to medical progress because they help improve understanding of human health and the healthcare system. They play a key role in discovering new ways to detect, prevent, or treat diseases, and it is essential that…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-10-16 Surya Tejaswi Yerramsetty , Almas Fathimah

In enterprise search, building high-quality datasets at scale remains a central challenge due to the difficulty of acquiring labeled data. To resolve this challenge, we propose an efficient approach to fine-tune small language models (SLMs)…

In recent years, the trend of deploying digital systems in numerous industries has hiked. The health sector has observed an extensive adoption of digital systems and services that generate significant medical records. Electronic health…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-03-01 Neel Kanwal , Giuseppe Rizzo

Recent research advances achieve human-level accuracy for de-identifying free-text clinical notes on research datasets, but gaps remain in reproducing this in large real-world settings. This paper summarizes lessons learned from building a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-12-15 Veysel Kocaman , Hasham Ul Haq , David Talby

Diversity in patent language is growing and makes finding synonyms for conducting patent searches more and more challenging. In addition to that, most approaches for dealing with diverse patent language are based on manual search and human…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-09-04 Mark Standke , Abdullah Kiwan , Annalena Lange , Silvan Berg

Search behaviour is characterised using synonymy and polysemy as users often want to search information based on meaning. Semantic representation strategies represent a move towards richer associative connections that can adequately capture…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-02-06 Niall McCarroll , Kevin Curran , Eugene McNamee , Angela Clist , Andrew Brammer

In medicine, a communicating virtual patient or doctor allows students to train in medical diagnosis and develop skills to conduct a medical consultation. In this paper, we describe a conversational virtual standardized patient system to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-12-17 Fréjus A. A. Laleye , Antonia Blanié , Antoine Brouquet , Dan Behnamou , Gaël de Chalendar

In this paper, we propose an alternative to deep neural networks for semantic information retrieval for the case of long documents. This new approach exploiting clustering techniques to take into account the meaning of words in Information…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-07-29 Paul Mbathe Mekontchou , Armel Fotsoh , Bernabe Batchakui , Eddy Ella

Large Language Models (LLMs) are revolutionizing how users interact with information systems, yet their high inference cost poses serious scalability and sustainability challenges. Caching inference responses, allowing them to be retrieved…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-16 Xutong Liu , Baran Atalar , Xiangxiang Dai , Jinhang Zuo , Siwei Wang , John C. S. Lui , Wei Chen , Carlee Joe-Wong

Finding similar patients is a common objective in precision medicine, facilitating treatment outcome assessment and clinical decision support. Choosing widely-available patient features and appropriate mathematical methods for similarity…

We introduce and address the problem of ad hoc table retrieval: answering a keyword query with a ranked list of tables. This task is not only interesting on its own account, but is also being used as a core component in many other…

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High-throughput phenotyping, the automated mapping of patient signs and symptoms to standardized ontology concepts, is essential to gaining value from electronic health records (EHR) in the support of precision medicine. Despite…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-06-24 Syed I. Munzir , Daniel B. Hier , Chelsea Oommen , Michael D. Carrithers

Medical language processing and deep learning techniques have emerged as critical tools for improving healthcare, particularly in the analysis of medical imaging and medical text data. These multimodal data fusion techniques help to improve…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-04-28 Sayeh Gholipour Picha , Dawood Al Chanti , Alice Caplier

Recent work has attempted to characterize the structure of semantic memory and the search algorithms which, together, best approximate human patterns of search revealed in a semantic fluency task. There are a number of models that seek to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-12-01 Filip Miscevic , Aida Nematzadeh , Suzanne Stevenson

The exponential growth of DNA sequencing data has outpaced traditional heuristic-based methods, which struggle to scale effectively. Efficient computational approaches are urgently needed to support large-scale similarity search, a…