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cs.CL2026

MedHopQA: A Disease-Centered Multi-Hop Reasoning Benchmark and Evaluation Framework for LLM-Based Biomedical Question Answering

Rezarta Islamaj, Robert Leaman, Joey Chan +13

Evaluating large language models (LLMs) in the biomedical domain requires benchmarks that can distinguish reasoning from pattern matching and remain discriminative as model capabil…

cs.CL2026

Condition-Gated Reasoning for Context-Dependent Biomedical Question Answering

Jash Rajesh Parekh, Wonbin Kweon, Joey Chan +7

Current biomedical question answering (QA) systems often assume that medical knowledge applies uniformly, yet real-world clinical reasoning is inherently conditional: nearly every…

cs.CL2025

Enhancing Biomedical Relation Extraction with Directionality

Po-Ting Lai, Chih-Hsuan Wei, Shubo Tian +2

Biological relation networks contain rich information for understanding the biological mechanisms behind the relationship of entities such as genes, proteins, diseases, and chemica…

cs.CL2024★ 7 cited

Augmenting Biomedical Named Entity Recognition with General-domain Resources

Yu Yin, Hyunjae Kim, Xiao Xiao +6

Training a neural network-based biomedical named entity recognition (BioNER) model usually requires extensive and costly human annotations. While several studies have employed mult…

cs.CL2024

EnzChemRED, a rich enzyme chemistry relation extraction dataset

Po-Ting Lai, Elisabeth Coudert, Lucila Aimo +16

Expert curation is essential to capture knowledge of enzyme functions from the scientific literature in FAIR open knowledgebases but cannot keep pace with the rate of new discoveri…

cs.CL2024★ 3 cited

PubTator 3.0: an AI-powered Literature Resource for Unlocking Biomedical Knowledge

Chih-Hsuan Wei, Alexis Allot, Po-Ting Lai +7

PubTator 3.0 (https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/research/pubtator3/) is a biomedical literature resource using state-of-the-art AI techniques to offer semantic and relation searches for…

cs.CL2023

BioREx: Improving Biomedical Relation Extraction by Leveraging Heterogeneous Datasets

Po-Ting Lai, Chih-Hsuan Wei, Ling Luo +2

Biomedical relation extraction (RE) is the task of automatically identifying and characterizing relations between biomedical concepts from free text. RE is a central task in biomed…

cs.CL2023★ 16 cited

Bioformer: an efficient transformer language model for biomedical text mining

Li Fang, Qingyu Chen, Chih-Hsuan Wei +2

Pretrained language models such as Bidirectional Encoder Representations from Transformers (BERT) have achieved state-of-the-art performance in natural language processing (NLP) ta…

cs.CL2022★ 76 cited

AIONER: All-in-one scheme-based biomedical named entity recognition using deep learning

Ling Luo, Chih-Hsuan Wei, Po-Ting Lai +3

Biomedical named entity recognition (BioNER) seeks to automatically recognize biomedical entities in natural language text, serving as a necessary foundation for downstream text mi…

cs.CL2022★ 5 cited

Assigning Species Information to Corresponding Genes by a Sequence Labeling Framework

Ling Luo, Chih-Hsuan Wei, Po-Ting Lai +3

The automatic assignment of species information to the corresponding genes in a research article is a critically important step in the gene normalization task, whereby a gene menti…

cs.CL2022

tmVar 3.0: an improved variant concept recognition and normalization tool

Chih-Hsuan Wei, Alexis Allot, Kevin Riehle +2

Previous studies have shown that automated text-mining tools are becoming increasingly important for successfully unlocking variant information in scientific literature at large sc…

cs.CL2022★ 164 cited

BioRED: A Rich Biomedical Relation Extraction Dataset

Ling Luo, Po-Ting Lai, Chih-Hsuan Wei +2

Automated relation extraction (RE) from biomedical literature is critical for many downstream text mining applications in both research and real-world settings. However, most exist…

cs.CL2020★ 66 cited

Artificial Intelligence (AI) in Action: Addressing the COVID-19 Pandemic with Natural Language Processing (NLP)

Qingyu Chen, Robert Leaman, Alexis Allot +4

The COVID-19 pandemic has had a significant impact on society, both because of the serious health effects of COVID-19 and because of public health measures implemented to slow its…

cs.CL2019★ 68 cited

BioConceptVec: creating and evaluating literature-based biomedical concept embeddings on a large scale

Qingyu Chen, Kyubum Lee, Shankai Yan +3

Capturing the semantics of related biological concepts, such as genes and mutations, is of significant importance to many research tasks in computational biology such as protein-pr…

cs.CL2019★ 2 cited

Biomedical Mention Disambiguation using a Deep Learning Approach

Chih-Hsuan Wei, Kyubum Lee, Robert Leaman +1

Automatically locating named entities in natural language text - named entity recognition - is an important task in the biomedical domain. Many named entity mentions are ambiguous…