6 papers
Hard Rules, Soft Preferences: Bridging Reasoning, Learning, and Optimization for Personalized Packing Checklist Generation
Himel Dev, Madhusudan Basak, Tanmoy Sen +2
Packing for air travel is recurring and error-prone: the checklist must be personal and context-aware, yet feasible under safety rules, item dependencies, and luggage limits. Exist…
From Feasibility to Desirability: Plan, Learn, Adapt (PLA) Framework for Personalized On-Device Itinerary Generation
Himel Dev, Tanmoy Sen, Madhusudan Basak +1
Generating personalized trip itineraries is a complex planning task and involves a tension between hard combinatorial feasibility and soft latent desirability. Classical optimizati…
REGen: A Reliable Evaluation Framework for Generative Event Argument Extraction
Omar Sharif, Joseph Gatto, Madhusudan Basak +1
Event argument extraction identifies arguments for predefined event roles in text. Existing work evaluates this task with exact match (EM), where predicted arguments must align exa…
Socially Constructed Treatment Plans: Analyzing Online Peer Interactions to Understand How Patients Navigate Complex Medical Conditions
Madhusudan Basak, Omar Sharif, Jessica Hulsey +4
When faced with complex and uncertain medical conditions (e.g., cancer, mental health conditions, recovery from substance dependency), millions of patients seek online peer support…
Explicit, Implicit, and Scattered: Revisiting Event Extraction to Capture Complex Arguments
Omar Sharif, Joseph Gatto, Madhusudan Basak +1
Prior works formulate the extraction of event-specific arguments as a span extraction problem, where event arguments are explicit -- i.e. assumed to be contiguous spans of text in…
A Thematic Framework for Analyzing Large-scale Self-reported Social Media Data on Opioid Use Disorder Treatment Using Buprenorphine Product
Madhusudan Basak, Omar Sharif, Sarah E. Lord +7
Background: One of the key FDA-approved medications for Opioid Use Disorder (OUD) is buprenorphine. Despite its popularity, individuals often report various information needs regar…