5 papers
Measuring the practice of shared-decision making (OPTION12): An Investigation into Open-sourced Smaller LLMs (OS-sLLMs) for Better Privacy and Sustainability
Tamara Wit, Lifeng Han, Carly Heipon +3
We present LLM4SDM, the first study of open-source smaller language models (OS-sLLMs) for automated assessment of shared decision making (SDM) using the Observer OPTION12 framework…
Analyzing Cancer Patients' Experiences with Embedding-based Topic Modeling and LLMs
Teodor-CÄlin Ionescu, Lifeng Han, Jan Heijdra Suasnabar +2
This study investigates the use of neural topic modeling and LLMs to uncover meaningful themes from patient storytelling data, to offer insights that could contribute to more patie…
DreamerNLplus: Interpretable Modeling of Mental Health Dynamics from Social Media Timelines using Hybrid Rule-Based and RAG Methods
Maryia Zhyrko, Daisy Monika Lal, Erik van Mulligen +1
We present DreamerNLplus, a hybrid framework for modeling mental health dynamics from social media timelines in the CLPsych 2026 shared task. Our system addresses three tasks: psyc…
Dutch Metaphor Extraction from Cancer Patients' Interviews and Forum Data using LLMs and Human in the Loop
Lifeng Han, David Lindevelt, Sander Puts +2
Metaphors and metaphorical language (MLs) play an important role in healthcare communication between clinicians, patients, and patients' family members. In this work, we focus on D…
HealthcareNLP: where are we and what is next?
Lifeng Han, Paul Rayson, Suzan Verberne +2
This proposed tutorial focuses on Healthcare Domain Applications of NLP, what we have achieved around HealthcareNLP, and the challenges that lie ahead for the future. Existing revi…