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most citedBioBERT: a pre-trained biomedical language representation model for biomedical text mining

7.5k citations · 7.7k across the 12 of their papers we have counts for

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12 papers

cs.CL2025

Using tournaments to calculate AUROC for zero-shot classification with LLMs

WonJin Yoon, Ian Bulovic, Timothy A. Miller

Large language models perform surprisingly well on many zero-shot classification tasks, but are difficult to fairly compare to supervised classifiers due to the lack of a modifiabl…

cs.CL2025★ 1 cited

Aspect-Oriented Summarization for Psychiatric Short-Term Readmission Prediction

WonJin Yoon, Boyu Ren, Spencer Thomas +4

Recent progress in large language models (LLMs) has enabled the automated processing of lengthy documents even without supervised training on a task-specific dataset. Yet, their ze…

cs.CL2022

Biomedical NER for the Enterprise with Distillated BERN2 and the Kazu Framework

Wonjin Yoon, Richard Jackson, Elliot Ford +2

In order to assist the drug discovery/development process, pharmaceutical companies often apply biomedical NER and linking techniques over internal and public corpora. Decades of s…

cs.CL2021★ 5 cited

Improving Tagging Consistency and Entity Coverage for Chemical Identification in Full-text Articles

Hyunjae Kim, Mujeen Sung, Wonjin Yoon +2

This paper is a technical report on our system submitted to the chemical identification task of the BioCreative VII Track 2 challenge. The main feature of this challenge is that th…

cs.CL2021★ 24 cited

Sequence tagging for biomedical extractive question answering

Wonjin Yoon, Richard Jackson, Aron Lagerberg +1

Current studies in extractive question answering (EQA) have modeled the single-span extraction setting, where a single answer span is a label to predict for a given question-passag…

cs.DL2020★ 51 cited

Pandemics are catalysts of scientific novelty: Evidence from COVID-19

Meijun Liu, Yi Bu, Chongyan Chen +14

Scientific novelty drives the efforts to invent new vaccines and solutions during the pandemic. First-time collaboration and international collaboration are two pivotal channels to…

cs.CL2020★ 16 cited

Transferability of Natural Language Inference to Biomedical Question Answering

Minbyul Jeong, Mujeen Sung, Gangwoo Kim +4

Biomedical question answering (QA) is a challenging task due to the scarcity of data and the requirement of domain expertise. Pre-trained language models have been used to address…

cs.CL2020★ 7 cited

Answering Questions on COVID-19 in Real-Time

Jinhyuk Lee, Sean S. Yi, Minbyul Jeong +5

The recent outbreak of the novel coronavirus is wreaking havoc on the world and researchers are struggling to effectively combat it. One reason why the fight is difficult is due to…

cs.CL2020★ 19 cited

Learning by Semantic Similarity Makes Abstractive Summarization Better

Wonjin Yoon, Yoon Sun Yeo, Minbyul Jeong +2

By harnessing pre-trained language models, summarization models had rapid progress recently. However, the models are mainly assessed by automatic evaluation metrics such as ROUGE.…

cs.CL2019★ 5 cited

Pre-trained Language Model for Biomedical Question Answering

Wonjin Yoon, Jinhyuk Lee, Donghyeon Kim +2

The recent success of question answering systems is largely attributed to pre-trained language models. However, as language models are mostly pre-trained on general domain corpora…

cs.CL2019★ 7.5k cited

BioBERT: a pre-trained biomedical language representation model for biomedical text mining

Jinhyuk Lee, Wonjin Yoon, Sungdong Kim +4

Biomedical text mining is becoming increasingly important as the number of biomedical documents rapidly grows. With the progress in natural language processing (NLP), extracting va…

cs.CL2018★ 119 cited

CollaboNet: collaboration of deep neural networks for biomedical named entity recognition

Wonjin Yoon, Chan Ho So, Jinhyuk Lee +1

Background: Finding biomedical named entities is one of the most essential tasks in biomedical text mining. Recently, deep learning-based approaches have been applied to biomedical…