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20162023
most citedA Study of Generative Large Language Model for Medical Research and Healthcare

400 citations

8 papers

cs.CL2023★ 71 cited

Model Tuning or Prompt Tuning? A Study of Large Language Models for Clinical Concept and Relation Extraction

Cheng Peng, Xi Yang, Kaleb E Smith +4

Objective To develop soft prompt-based learning algorithms for large language models (LLMs), examine the shape of prompts, prompt-tuning using frozen/unfrozen LLMs, transfer learni…

cs.CL2023★ 400 cited

A Study of Generative Large Language Model for Medical Research and Healthcare

Cheng Peng, Xi Yang, Aokun Chen +16

There is enormous enthusiasm and concerns in using large language models (LLMs) in healthcare, yet current assumptions are all based on general-purpose LLMs such as ChatGPT. This s…

cs.CL2023★ 30 cited

Clinical Concept and Relation Extraction Using Prompt-based Machine Reading Comprehension

Cheng Peng, Xi Yang, Zehao Yu +3

Objective: To develop a natural language processing system that solves both clinical concept extraction and relation extraction in a unified prompt-based machine reading comprehens…

cs.CL2023★ 40 cited

Contextualized Medication Information Extraction Using Transformer-based Deep Learning Architectures

Aokun Chen, Zehao Yu, Xi Yang +3

Objective: To develop a natural language processing (NLP) system to extract medications and contextual information that help understand drug changes. This project is part of the 20…

cs.CL2022★ 33 cited

SODA: A Natural Language Processing Package to Extract Social Determinants of Health for Cancer Studies

Zehao Yu, Xi Yang, Chong Dang +12

Objective: We aim to develop an open-source natural language processing (NLP) package, SODA (i.e., SOcial DeterminAnts), with pre-trained transformer models to extract social deter…

stat.ML2019★ 12 cited

Hybrid Density- and Partition-based Clustering Algorithm for Data with Mixed-type Variables

Shu Wang, Jonathan G. Yabes, Chung-Chou H. Chang

Clustering is an essential technique for discovering patterns in data. The steady increase in amount and complexity of data over the years led to improvements and development of ne…

stat.AP2018★ 11 cited

Accurate and Efficient Estimation of Small P-values with the Cross-Entropy Method: Applications in Genomic Data Analysis

Yang Shi, Mengqiao Wang, Weiping Shi +3

Small -values are often required to be accurately estimated in large-scale genomic studies for the adjustment of multiple hypothesis tests and the ranking…

stat.CO2016★ 5 cited

Efficiently estimating small p-values in permutation tests using importance sampling and cross-entropy method

Yang Shi, Huining Kang, Ji-Hyun Lee +1

Permutation tests are widely used for statistical hypothesis testing when the sampling distribution of the test statistic under the null hypothesis is analytically intractable or u…