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5 papers

cs.CL2026

Time as Structure: Temporal Dependency Graphs for Verifiable Deadline Computation over Legal Documents

Maryia Zhyrko, Lifeng Han, Suzan Verberne

Miss a filing deadline by one day and the claim is barred, however strong the case. Computing that deadline is rarely simple: the period runs from a triggering event, is counted by…

cs.CL2026

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…

cs.CL2026

Analyzing Cancer Patients' Experiences with Embedding-based Topic Modeling and LLMs

Teodor-Călin 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…

cs.CL2026

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…

cs.CL2025

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…