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Ayah Zirikly

3 accepted papers

2023

Characterization of Stigmatizing Language in Medical Records

ACL 2023short

Widespread disparities in clinical outcomes exist between different demographic groups in the United States. A new line of work in medical sociology has demonstrated physicians often use stigmatizing language in electronic medical records within certain groups, such as black patients, which may exac…

2022

Improving the Generalizability of Depression Detection by Leveraging Clinical Questionnaires

ACL 2022long

Automated methods have been widely used to identify and analyze mental health conditions (e.g., depression) from various sources of information, including social media. Yet, deployment of such models in real-world healthcare applications faces challenges including poor out-of-domain generalization a…

2021

Sparse encoding for more-interpretable feature-selecting representations in probabilistic matrix factorization

ICLR 2021poster

Dimensionality reduction methods for count data are critical to a wide range of applications in medical informatics and other fields where model interpretability is paramount. For such data, hierarchical Poisson matrix factorization (HPF) and other sparse probabilistic non-negative matrix factorizat…