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Yifang Sun

2 accepted papers

2021

Improving the Efficiency and Effectiveness for BERT-based Entity Resolution

AAAI 2021technical

BERT has set a new state-of-the-art performance on entity resolution (ER) task, largely owed to fine-tuning pre-trained language models and the deep pair-wise interaction. Albeit being remarkably effective, it comes with a steep increase in computational cost, as the deep-interaction requires to exh…

2021

Sent2Span: Span Detection for PICO Extraction in the Biomedical Text without Span Annotations

EMNLP 2021finding

The rapid growth in published clinical trials makes it difficult to maintain up-to-date systematic reviews, which require finding all relevant trials. This leads to policy and practice decisions based on out-of-date, incomplete, and biased subsets of available clinical evidence. Extracting and then…