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Connor Heaton

3 accepted papers

2025

TOP-Training: Target-Oriented Pretraining for Medical Extractive Question Answering

COLING 2025main

We study extractive question-answering in the medical domain (Medical-EQA). This problem has two main challenges: (i) domain specificity, as most AI models lack necessary domain knowledge, and (ii) extraction-based answering style, which restricts most autoregressive LLMs due to potential hallucinat…

2024

PEaCE: A Chemistry-Oriented Dataset for Optical Character Recognition on Scientific Documents

COLING 2024main

Optical Character Recognition (OCR) is an established task with the objective of identifying the text present in an image. While many off-the-shelf OCR models exist, they are often trained for either scientific (e.g., formulae) or generic printed English text. Extracting text from chemistry publicat…