5 papers
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…
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…
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…
PVminer: A Domain-Specific Tool to Detect the Patient Voice in Patient Generated Data
Samah Fodeh, Linhai Ma, Yan Wang +6
Patient-generated text such as secure messages, surveys, and interviews contains rich expressions of the patient voice (PV), reflecting communicative behaviors and social determina…