4 papers
Healthier LLMs: Retrieval-Augmented Generation for Public Health Question Answering
Felix Feldman, Joshua Harris, Timothy Laurence +7
Large language models (LLMs) achieve promising results on medical question answering benchmarks, yet their use in public health is constrained by hallucinations and the rapid evolu…
Healthy LLMs? Benchmarking LLM Knowledge of UK Government Public Health Information
Joshua Harris, Fan Grayson, Felix Feldman +8
As Large Language Models (LLMs) become widely accessible, a detailed understanding of their knowledge within specific domains becomes necessary for successful real world use. This…
Review GIDE -- Restaurant Review Gastrointestinal Illness Detection and Extraction with Large Language Models
Timothy Laurence, Joshua Harris, Leo Loman +5
Foodborne gastrointestinal (GI) illness is a common cause of ill health in the UK. However, many cases do not interact with the healthcare system, posing significant challenges for…
Evaluating Large Language Models for Public Health Classification and Extraction Tasks
Joshua Harris, Timothy Laurence, Leo Loman +18
Advances in Large Language Models (LLMs) have led to significant interest in their potential to support human experts across a range of domains, including public health. In this wo…