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most citedTeam Fusion@ SU@ BC8 SympTEMIST track: transformer-based approach for symptom recognition and linking

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cs.CL2026★ 3 cited

Team Fusion@ SU@ BC8 SympTEMIST track: transformer-based approach for symptom recognition and linking

Georgi Grazhdanski, Sylvia Vassileva, Ivan Koychev +1

This paper presents a transformer-based approach to solving the SympTEMIST named entity recognition (NER) and entity linking (EL) tasks. For NER, we fine-tune a RoBERTa-based (1) t…

cs.CL2026

FMI@SU ToxHabits: Evaluating LLMs Performance on Toxic Habit Extraction in Spanish Clinical Texts

Sylvia Vassileva, Ivan Koychev, Svetla Boytcheva

The paper presents an approach for the recognition of toxic habits named entities in Spanish clinical texts. The approach was developed for the ToxHabits Shared Task. Our team part…

cs.CL2025

ExPe: Exact Positional Encodings for Generative Transformer Models with Extrapolating Capabilities

Aleksis Datseris, Sylvia Vassileva, Ivan Koychev +1

This paper introduces a novel approach to position embeddings in transformer models, named "Exact Positional Embeddings" (ExPE). An absolute positional embedding method that can ex…

cs.CL2025

Using LLMs for Multilingual Clinical Entity Linking to ICD-10

Sylvia Vassileva, Ivan Koychev, Svetla Boytcheva

The linking of clinical entities is a crucial part of extracting structured information from clinical texts. It is the process of assigning a code from a medical ontology or classi…

eess.IV2024

Automatic Labels are as Effective as Manual Labels in Biomedical Images Classification with Deep Learning

Niccolò Marini, Stefano Marchesin, Lluis Borras Ferris +12

The increasing availability of biomedical data is helping to design more robust deep learning (DL) algorithms to analyze biomedical samples. Currently, one of the main limitations…