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most citedSingle Sample Feature Importance: An Interpretable Algorithm for Low-Level Feature Analysis

2 citations · 8 across the 18 of their papers we have counts for

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18 papers

cs.CL2026★ 1 cited

Medical Triage as Pairwise Ranking: A Benchmark for Urgency in Patient Portal Messages

Joseph Gatto, Parker Seegmiller, Timothy Burdick +4

Medical triage is the task of allocating medical resources and prioritizing patients based on medical need. This paper introduces the first large-scale public dataset for studying…

cs.CL2026★ 1 cited

How Much Would a Clinician Edit This Draft? Evaluating LLM Alignment for Patient Message Response Drafting

Parker Seegmiller, Joseph Gatto, Sarah E. Greer +4

Large language models (LLMs) show promise in drafting responses to patient portal messages, yet their integration into clinical workflows raises various concerns, including whether…

cs.CL2025

Follow-up Question Generation For Enhanced Patient-Provider Conversations

Joseph Gatto, Parker Seegmiller, Timothy Burdick +3

Follow-up question generation is an essential feature of dialogue systems as it can reduce conversational ambiguity and enhance modeling complex interactions. Conversational contex…

cs.CL2025

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…

cs.AI2024★ 1 cited

In-Context Learning for Preserving Patient Privacy: A Framework for Synthesizing Realistic Patient Portal Messages

Joseph Gatto, Parker Seegmiller, Timothy E. Burdick +1

Since the COVID-19 pandemic, clinicians have seen a large and sustained influx in patient portal messages, significantly contributing to clinician burnout. To the best of our knowl…

cs.CL2024

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…

cs.CL2024

Depth : Improving Evaluation of Cross-Domain Text Classification by Measuring Semantic Generalizability

Parker Seegmiller, Joseph Gatto, Sarah Masud Preum

Recent evaluations of cross-domain text classification models aim to measure the ability of a model to obtain domain-invariant performance in a target domain given labeled samples…

cs.CL2024

Do LLMs Find Human Answers To Fact-Driven Questions Perplexing? A Case Study on Reddit

Parker Seegmiller, Joseph Gatto, Omar Sharif +2

Large language models (LLMs) have been shown to be proficient in correctly answering questions in the context of online discourse. However, the study of using LLMs to model human-l…

cs.CL2024

Scope of Large Language Models for Mining Emerging Opinions in Online Health Discourse

Joseph Gatto, Madhusudan Basak, Yash Srivastava +2

In this paper, we develop an LLM-powered framework for the curation and evaluation of emerging opinion mining in online health communities. We formulate emerging opinion mining as…

cs.CL2024

Large Language Models for Document-Level Event-Argument Data Augmentation for Challenging Role Types

Joseph Gatto, Parker Seegmiller, Omar Sharif +1

Event Argument Extraction (EAE) is an extremely difficult information extraction problem -- with significant limitations in few-shot cross-domain (FSCD) settings. A common solution…

cs.CL2023★ 1 cited

Chain-of-Thought Embeddings for Stance Detection on Social Media

Joseph Gatto, Omar Sharif, Sarah Masud Preum

Stance detection on social media is challenging for Large Language Models (LLMs), as emerging slang and colloquial language in online conversations often contain deeply implicit st…

cs.CL2023

Not Enough Labeled Data? Just Add Semantics: A Data-Efficient Method for Inferring Online Health Texts

Joseph Gatto, Sarah M. Preum

User-generated texts available on the web and social platforms are often long and semantically challenging, making them difficult to annotate. Obtaining human annotation becomes in…

cs.CL2023

Text Encoders Lack Knowledge: Leveraging Generative LLMs for Domain-Specific Semantic Textual Similarity

Joseph Gatto, Omar Sharif, Parker Seegmiller +2

Amidst the sharp rise in the evaluation of large language models (LLMs) on various tasks, we find that semantic textual similarity (STS) has been under-explored. In this study, we…

cs.CL2023

The Scope of In-Context Learning for the Extraction of Medical Temporal Constraints

Parker Seegmiller, Joseph Gatto, Madhusudan Basak +4

Medications often impose temporal constraints on everyday patient activity. Violations of such medical temporal constraints (MTCs) lead to a lack of treatment adherence, in additio…

cs.LG2023

ActSafe: Predicting Violations of Medical Temporal Constraints for Medication Adherence

Parker Seegmiller, Joseph Gatto, Abdullah Mamun +4

Prescription medications often impose temporal constraints on regular health behaviors (RHBs) of patients, e.g., eating before taking medication. Violations of such medical tempora…

cs.CL2023★ 1 cited

Theme-driven Keyphrase Extraction to Analyze Social Media Discourse

William Romano, Omar Sharif, Madhusudan Basak +2

Social media platforms are vital resources for sharing self-reported health experiences, offering rich data on various health topics. Despite advancements in Natural Language Proce…

cs.CL2022★ 1 cited

HealthE: Classifying Entities in Online Textual Health Advice

Joseph Gatto, Parker Seegmiller, Garrett Johnston +1

The processing of entities in natural language is essential to many medical NLP systems. Unfortunately, existing datasets vastly under-represent the entities required to model publ…

cs.LG2019★ 2 cited

Single Sample Feature Importance: An Interpretable Algorithm for Low-Level Feature Analysis

Joseph Gatto, Ravi Lanka, Yumi Iwashita +1

Have you ever wondered how your feature space is impacting the prediction of a specific sample in your dataset? In this paper, we introduce Single Sample Feature Importance (SSFI),…