2018 n2c2 shared task on adverse drug events and medication extraction in electronic health records

S Henry, K Buchan, M Filannino… - Journal of the …, 2020 - academic.oup.com
Objective This article summarizes the preparation, organization, evaluation, and results of
Track 2 of the 2018 National NLP Clinical Challenges shared task. Track 2 focused on …

MedCPT: Contrastive Pre-trained Transformers with large-scale PubMed search logs for zero-shot biomedical information retrieval

Q Jin, W Kim, Q Chen, DC Comeau, L Yeganova… - …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Motivation Information retrieval (IR) is essential in biomedical knowledge acquisition and
clinical decision support. While recent progress has shown that language model encoders …

Simplified data wrangling with ir_datasets

S MacAvaney, A Yates, S Feldman, D Downey… - Proceedings of the 44th …, 2021 - dl.acm.org
Managing the data for Information Retrieval (IR) experiments can be challenging. Dataset
documentation is scattered across the Internet and once one obtains a copy of the data …

[HTML][HTML] Searching for scientific evidence in a pandemic: An overview of TREC-COVID

K Roberts, T Alam, S Bedrick… - Journal of Biomedical …, 2021 - Elsevier
We present an overview of the TREC-COVID Challenge, an information retrieval (IR) shared
task to evaluate search on scientific literature related to COVID-19. The goals of TREC …

Cognitive biases in crowdsourcing

C Eickhoff - Proceedings of the eleventh ACM international …, 2018 - dl.acm.org
Crowdsourcing has become a popular paradigm in data curation, annotation and evaluation
for many artificial intelligence and information retrieval applications. Considerable efforts …

Semantic information retrieval on medical texts: Research challenges, survey, and open issues

L Tamine, L Goeuriot - ACM Computing Surveys (CSUR), 2021 - dl.acm.org
The explosive growth and widespread accessibility of medical information on the Internet
have led to a surge of research activity in a wide range of scientific communities including …

[PDF][PDF] Exploiting incoming and outgoing citations for improving Information Retrieval in the TREC 2015 Clinical Decision Support Track

J Gobeill, A Gaudinat, P Ruch - Proceedings of The 24th Text …, 2015 - arodes.hes-so.ch
Résumé We investigated two strategies for improving Information Retrieval thanks to
incoming and outgoing citations. We first started from settings that worked last year and …

A large-scale dataset of patient summaries for retrieval-based clinical decision support systems

Z Zhao, Q Jin, F Chen, T Peng, S Yu - Scientific data, 2023 - nature.com
Abstract Retrieval-based Clinical Decision Support (ReCDS) can aid clinical workflow by
providing relevant literature and similar patients for a given patient. However, the …

Retrieval augmentation of large language models for lay language generation

Y Guo, W Qiu, G Leroy, S Wang, T Cohen - Journal of Biomedical …, 2024 - Elsevier
The complex linguistic structures and specialized terminology of expert-authored content
limit the accessibility of biomedical literature to the general public. Automated methods have …

Literature-augmented clinical outcome prediction

A Naik, S Parasa, S Feldman, LL Wang… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2021 - arxiv.org
We present BEEP (Biomedical Evidence-Enhanced Predictions), a novel approach for
clinical outcome prediction that retrieves patient-specific medical literature and incorporates …