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20182026
most citedAssociations Between Natural Language Processing (NLP) Enriched Social Determinants of Health and Suicide Death among US Veterans

60 citations · 115 across the 12 of their papers we have counts for

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13 papers

cs.AI2026

ESTAR: Early-Stopping Token-Aware Reasoning For Efficient Inference

Junda Wang, Zhichao Yang, Dongxu Zhang +2

Large reasoning models (LRMs) achieve state-of-the-art performance by generating long chains-of-thought, but often waste computation on redundant reasoning after the correct answer…

cs.CL2023★ 1 cited

UMASS_BioNLP at MEDIQA-Chat 2023: Can LLMs generate high-quality synthetic note-oriented doctor-patient conversations?

Junda Wang, Zonghai Yao, Avijit Mitra +3

This paper presents UMASS_BioNLP team participation in the MEDIQA-Chat 2023 shared task for Task-A and Task-C. We focus especially on Task-C and propose a novel LLMs cooperation sy…

cs.CL2023

Interpretable Math Word Problem Solution Generation Via Step-by-step Planning

Mengxue Zhang, Zichao Wang, Zhichao Yang +2

Solutions to math word problems (MWPs) with step-by-step explanations are valuable, especially in education, to help students better comprehend problem-solving strategies. Most exi…

cs.CL2023

Vision Meets Definitions: Unsupervised Visual Word Sense Disambiguation Incorporating Gloss Information

Sunjae Kwon, Rishabh Garodia, Minhwa Lee +2

Visual Word Sense Disambiguation (VWSD) is a task to find the image that most accurately depicts the correct sense of the target word for the given context. Previously, image-text…

cs.CL2022★ 60 cited

Associations Between Natural Language Processing (NLP) Enriched Social Determinants of Health and Suicide Death among US Veterans

Avijit Mitra, Richeek Pradhan, Rachel D Melamed +8

Importance: Social determinants of health (SDOH) are known to be associated with increased risk of suicidal behaviors, but few studies utilized SDOH from unstructured electronic he…

cs.AI2022

Enhancing the prediction of disease outcomes using electronic health records and pretrained deep learning models

Zhichao Yang, Weisong Liu, Dan Berlowitz +1

Question: Can an encoder-decoder architecture pretrained on a large dataset of longitudinal electronic health records improves patient outcome predictions? Findings: In this progno…

cs.CL2022

Multi-label Few-shot ICD Coding as Autoregressive Generation with Prompt

Zhichao Yang, Sunjae Kwon, Zonghai Yao +1

Automatic International Classification of Diseases (ICD) coding aims to assign multiple ICD codes to a medical note with an average of 3,000+ tokens. This task is challenging due t…

cs.CL2022★ 3 cited

An Automatic SOAP Classification System Using Weakly Supervision And Transfer Learning

Sunjae Kwon, Zhichao Yang, Hong Yu

In this paper, we introduce a comprehensive framework for developing a machine learning-based SOAP (Subjective, Objective, Assessment, and Plan) classification system without manua…

cs.CL2022★ 5 cited

Context Variance Evaluation of Pretrained Language Models for Prompt-based Biomedical Knowledge Probing

Zonghai Yao, Yi Cao, Zhichao Yang +1

Pretrained language models (PLMs) have motivated research on what kinds of knowledge these models learn. Fill-in-the-blanks problem (e.g., cloze tests) is a natural approach for ga…

cs.IR2022★ 9 cited

Extracting Biomedical Factual Knowledge Using Pretrained Language Model and Electronic Health Record Context

Zonghai Yao, Yi Cao, Zhichao Yang +2

Language Models (LMs) have performed well on biomedical natural language processing applications. In this study, we conducted some experiments to use prompt methods to extract know…

cs.CL2022

Knowledge Injected Prompt Based Fine-tuning for Multi-label Few-shot ICD Coding

Zhichao Yang, Shufan Wang, Bhanu Pratap Singh Rawat +2

Automatic International Classification of Diseases (ICD) coding aims to assign multiple ICD codes to a medical note with average length of 3,000+ tokens. This task is challenging d…

cs.CL2019★ 2 cited

Generating Classical Chinese Poems from Vernacular Chinese

Zhichao Yang, Pengshan Cai, Yansong Feng +4

Classical Chinese poetry is a jewel in the treasure house of Chinese culture. Previous poem generation models only allow users to employ keywords to interfere the meaning of genera…

cs.CL2018★ 35 cited

Word Embedding Perturbation for Sentence Classification

Dongxu Zhang, Zhichao Yang

In this technique report, we aim to mitigate the overfitting problem of natural language by applying data augmentation methods. Specifically, we attempt several types of noise to p…