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From Qualitative Text to Integrated Evidence: The Parallel-Then-Integrated (PTI) Procedure
Elyas Irankhah, Ashley Hagaman, Samah Fodeh
Mixed methods research offers established strategies for integrating qualitative and quantitative evidence, but less guidance for integrating two computational representations of t…
Assessing Suicide Risk in Arabic Crisis Helpline Calls: A Comparison of Arabic and English Large Language Models
Linhai Ma, Rita El Hachem, Mahatab El Hajj +2
Crisis helplines assess suicide risk through structured interviews, a process that is slow and dependent on operator training and workload. Natural language processing could suppor…
PVminerLLM2: Improving Structured Extraction of Patient Voice via Preference Optimization
Samah Fodeh, Linhai Ma, Ganesh Puthiaraju +7
Motivation: Patient-generated text contains critical information on patients' lived experiences, social context, and care engagement, but remains largely unstructured, limiting its…
EPPC-OASIS: Ontology-Aware Adaptation and Structured Inference Refinement for Electronic Patient-Provider Communication Mining in Secure Messages
Samah Fodeh, Sreeraj Ramachandran, Elyas Irankhah +7
Secure patient-provider messages contain clinically important communication behaviors that are difficult to characterize manually at scale. The Electronic Patient-Provider Communic…
Yale-DM-Lab at ArchEHR-QA 2026: Deterministic Grounding and Multi-Pass Evidence Alignment for EHR Question Answering
Elyas Irankhah, Samah Fodeh
We describe the Yale-DM-Lab system for the ArchEHR-QA 2026 shared task. The task studies patient-authored questions about hospitalization records and contains four subtasks (ST): c…
STaR-DRO: Stateful Tsallis Reweighting for Group-Robust Structured Prediction
Samah Fodeh, Ganesh Puthiaraju, Elyas Irankhah +5
Structured prediction with large language models requires outputs that are label-accurate, ontology-constrained, structurally valid, and evidence-grounded under label imbalance and…
PVminerLLM: Structured Extraction of Patient Voice from Patient-Generated Text using Large Language Models
Samah Fodeh, Linhai Ma, Ganesh Puthiaraju +5
Motivation: Patient-generated text contains critical information about patients' lived experiences, social circumstances, and engagement in care, including factors that strongly in…
TAB-PO: Preference Optimization with a Token-Level Adaptive Barrier for Token-Critical Structured Generation
Samah Fodeh, Linhai Ma, Ganesh Puthiaraju +5
Direct Preference Optimization (DPO) is effective for offline alignment but poorly matched to ontology-driven structured prediction, where preferred and rejected JSON often differ…
EPPCMinerBen: A Novel Benchmark for Evaluating Large Language Models on Electronic Patient-Provider Communication via the Patient Portal
Samah Fodeh, Yan Wang, Linhai Ma +3
Effective communication in health care is critical for treatment outcomes and adherence. With patient-provider exchanges shifting to secure messaging, analyzing electronic patient-…