6 accepted papers
In-hospital text data contains valuable clinical information, yet deploying fine-tuned small language models (SLMs) for information extraction remains challenging due to differences in formatting and vocabulary across institutions. Since access to the original in-hospital data (source domain) is oft…
The scarcity of publicly available clinical corpora hinders developing and applying NLP tools in clinical research. While existing work tackles this issue by utilizing generative models to create high-quality synthetic corpora, their methods require learning from the original in-hospital clinical do…
User-generated data sources have gained significance in uncovering Adverse Drug Reactions (ADRs), with an increasing number of discussions occurring in the digital world. However, the existing clinical corpora predominantly revolve around scientific articles in English. This work presents a multilin…
Temporal relation annotation in the clinical domain is crucial yet challenging due to its workload and the medical expertise required. In this paper, we propose a novel annotation method that integrates event start-points ordering and question-answering (QA) as the annotation format. By focusing onl…
Entity Linking performance has a strong reliance on having a large quantity of high-quality annotated training data available. Yet, manual annotation of named entities, especially their boundaries, is ambiguous, error-prone, and raises many inconsistencies between annotators. While imprecise boundar…
This paper presents a prototype of a chat room that detects offensive expressions in a video live streaming chat in real time. Focusing on Twitch, one of the most popular live streaming platforms, we created a dataset for the task of detecting offensive expressions. We collected 2,000 chat posts acr…